{"id":12570,"date":"2012-06-06T12:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=12570"},"modified":"2012-06-06T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:48:22","slug":"women-children-among-18-afghans-dead-in-nato-wedding-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/06\/women-children-among-18-afghans-dead-in-nato-wedding-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, children among 18 Afghans dead in NATO wedding strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Afghan villagers sit on the back of a vehicle carrying dead bodies of children who were killed in a NATO airstrike on a home in Sajawand village in Logar province south of Kabul on June 6, 2012 (AFP Photo\/Sabawoon Amarkhil)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A NATO airstrike in the eastern Afghan province of Logar has killed 18 people, including women and children, local officials report. A NATO spokesperson said a team had been deployed to investigate the claims of civilian casualties.<\/span><\/p>\n

Afghan authorities say the pre-dawn attack aimed at militants in the area hit a wedding. An AP photographer at the scene reported seeing the bodies of five women, seven children and six men piled in vans. AFP news agency also released a photo with victims piled into the back of a vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local villagers are now reportedly driving the bodies to the capital of Logar province to protest the NATO strike which they say hit a house in the district of Baraki Barak.<\/span><\/p>\n

NATO says it has received no reports of civilians killed in the pre-dawn operation targeting a Taliban leader.<\/span><\/p>\n

ISAF released a statement, confirming a pre-dawn operation aimed at the capture of a Taliban leader in Logar.<\/span><\/p>\n

“During the operation, insurgents attacked the Afghan and coalition troops with small-arms fire and a grenade,” said the NATO statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response, alliance forces \u201creturned fire and requested a precision airstrike.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00adMeanwhile, multiple blasts killed 22 people and wounded at least 50 others as three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

One bomber detonated a three-wheeled motorbike filled with explosives, police said. Then, as people rushed to assist the wounded, two other bombers walked up to the scene and blew themselves up.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack took place about five kilometers from the main gate of a massive military installation run by NATO, and some 500 meters from an Afghan military base.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the bombings<\/span><\/p>\n

Civilian casualties mounting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Reports of NATO actions in Afghanistan causing civilian casualties are not rare. In the end of May, local officials from the eastern province of Paktia claimed that a coalition strike killed an Afghan family, including six children.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In February Afghan President Hamid Karzai accused NATO of killing seven children in a strike in the north-east of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

The casualties, however, do not always come from air strikes. In March an alleged shooting rampage by a NATO soldier resulted in 17 civilian deaths<\/span><\/a><\/span> in the province of Kandahar. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who was accused of the massacre, was whisked out of the country to a US detention center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Civilian deaths resulting from US-led coalition actions have been a bone of contention in Afghanistan for quite some time. Karzai has regularly condemned such events, saying the strategic partnership is meaningless if the lives of Afghan people are not safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last year saw more than 3,000 Afghan civilians killed in violence according to a UN report. The document attributed 14 per cent of these deaths to actions by international and Afghan troops.<\/span><\/p>\n

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