KABUL, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Air raids carried out by
NATO forces in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province claimed the lives of
nine civilians, a local resident said Wednesday.
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"In the air strikes conducted in Ashagho area of
Jalai district Tuesday night, nine civilians were killed and 11 others injured,"
Ghulam Sakhi, a victim of the bombardment under treatment in Mir Wais hospital
in Kandahar city, told Xinhua.
Women and children were among the dead and wounded
persons, he added.
Eight of the injured persons, he added, had been
taken to Mir Wais hospital for treatment.
The incident occurred when clash erupted between
Taliban fighters and Afghan troops backed NATO on Tuesday evening.
However, NATO sources in Kandahar rejected the claim,
saying eight militants were killed in the operation.
Jalai district was the scene of bloody fighting
between the Taliban and the joint NATO-Afghan forces last month during which
more than 500 militants, according to officials, were killed.
More than 2,400 people, mostly rebels, have been
killed in the post-Taliban Afghanistan since January this year.
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Related: 14 militants killed in E. Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed up to 14 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's eastern Nuristan province, an ISAF spokesman, Maj. Luke Knittig said Wednesday.
"The Taliban attacked our convoy in Kamdish district Tuesday and we successfully rescued our convoy and in the process as many as 14 militants were killed," he told Xinhua.
A Taliban spokesman claimed that 10 foreign soldiers were killed in militants' attack.
Knitigg rejected the claim by saying, "No ISAF soldier was injured, only one ISAF vehicle was damaged in the incident."
Taliban-led insurgency has claimed the lives of more than 2,400 people mostly insurgents since beginning 2006 in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. Enditem
