More than 200 afghan civilians killed by indiscriminate bombings in June
Posted by truthline on July 1, 2007
‘Up to 80 civilians dead’ after US air strikes in Afghanistan
Jason Burke
Sunday July 1, 2007
The Observer
Air strikes in the British-controlled Helmand province of Afghanistan may have killed civilians, coalition troops said yesterday as local people claimed that between 50 and 80 people, many of them women and children, had died.In the latest of a series of attacks causing significant civilian casualties in recent weeks, more than 200 were killed by coalition troops in Afghanistan in June, far more than are believed to have been killed by Taliban militants.
The bombardment, which witnesses said lasted up to three hours, in the Gereshk district late on Friday followed an attempted ambush by the Taliban on a joint US-Afghan military convoy. According to Mohammad Hussein, the provincial police chief, the militants fled into a nearby village for cover. Planes then targeted the village of Hyderabad. Mohammad Khan, a resident of the village, said seven members of his family, including his brother and five of his brother’s children, were killed.’I brought three of my wounded relatives to Gereshk hospital for treatment,’ he told the Associated Press news agency by phone. The villagers were yesterday burying a ‘lot of dead bodies’, Khan said.
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July 30, 2007 at 12:05 am
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon.
May Allah give patience and steadfastness to the Afghan people during these times of trial
Ameen!