US troops kill five civilians in Afghanistan, governor says
Saturday, April 11, 2009
A provincial governor in south-eastern Afghanistan said Thursday that US-led international troops killed five civilians including two women and a 7-day-old child and wounded two other women in an operation against suspected militants. The coalition troops conducted an operation in a village near Khost city, the capital of the province of the same name Wednesday night "after they claimed that they were attacked by small arms fire," Hamidullah Qalandarzai, the provincial governor, told the German Press Agency dpa.
"The US soldiers first surrounded the area and then killed five civilians in the firefight," Qalandarzai said, adding that "the dead people included two women, a 7-day-old boy, a 10-year-old boy and an adult man."
He said the joint forces targeted the house of Janat Gul, a local villager, but during the firefight three residents of a neighbouring house, which belongs to Colonel Zahir Shah, an Afghan army officer, were killed.
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