Washington, October 27 (Xinhuanet) -- At least 10 people were
killed Saturday when a United States fighter jet hit a northern
Afghan village in the territory controlled by anti-Taliban forces. A foreign ministry official from the anti-Taliban Northern
Alliance confirmed that a U.S. bomb hit the village of Khan Agaha
at the mouth of the Kapisa valley on Saturday, according to
reports from Afghanistan. An ambulance driver who went to the village, three kilometers
from the Taliban frontlines northeast of the Afghan capital of
Kabul, said 10 civilians were killed instantly by the bomb and at
least another six injured. The misguided strike occurred during the heaviest day of U.S.
bombing on the frontlines of the Taliban north of Kabul. In day-long raids Saturday, U.S. warplanes dropped up to 35
bombs at the mouth of Kapisa valley, 80 kilometers northeast of
Kabul, and near Bagram airbase, about 40 kilometers north of the
capital. The United States has insisted that its forces are going
exclusively for military targets in the Afghan campaign against
terrorists, whom it blames for the September 11 attacks on New
York and Washington. The American military has previously
acknowledged bombs going astray and causing some civilian
casualties. Enditem
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