U.S.-Led Coalition Air Strikes Left 76 Civilians Dead
August 23rd, 2008Freedom.
Via: CBC News:
U.S.-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, in a Friday attack in western Afghanistan, said the country’s Interior Ministry.
“Seventy-six civilians, most of them women and children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Nineteen women, seven men and the rest children, all under 15 years of age, were killed, the statement said.
The civilians were killed when coalition forces bombarded the Shindand district in Herat Friday afternoon, the ministry claimed.
Coalition troops denied killing any civilians in the air strike.
