AFGHANISTAN - 'Fifty die' in Afghan air strike

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Monday, 22 May 2006,

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'Fifty die' in Afghan air strike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aircraft from the US-led coalition have struck a village in southern

Afghanistan killing up to 50 Taleban, a US military spokesman has said.

But a BBC correspondent has received

reports that 30 civilians were killed in the attack and 50 others injured,

including children.

The US-led troops said they had no reports of civilian

casualties.

The attack was launched in Kandahar's Panjwayi

district where Taleban clashed with Afghan security forces last week.

Officials estimate up to 200 rebels have been killed in the

region since last Wednesday, in some of the fiercest fighting since the fall

of the Taleban in late 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eyewitnesses and local doctors say children were among those

injured in the US air strike.

" They started to bomb our village at midnight

and continued up to this morning, " one eyewitness, Attah Mohammad,

told AFP.

Another man said Taleban fighters had taken refuge at a local

madrassa [islamic religious school] after the recent fighting.

" Helicopters bombed the madrassa and some of the Taleban ran

from there and into people's homes, " Haji Ikhlaf told the

Associated Press.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5003478.stm

 

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