NATO mortar rounds kill Afghan civilians

Friday, June 12, 2009 at 5:29 AM Posted by Beijing News


KABUL – NATO mortar rounds killed two Afghan civilians during a clash with insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, while a bomb blast killed a British soldier in the south, officials said Friday.

The fighting in eastern Kunar province Thursday began when insurgents attacked NATO forces. The troops fired mortar rounds in response, killing two civilians and wounding five, NATO said in a statement.

The statement issued late Thursday did not provide further details on the clash or say whether any insurgents were killed in the firefight. NATO said it was investigating the incident.

Also Thursday, a British soldier was killed in an explosion near the southern city of Kandahar. Britain's Ministry of Defense said the dead soldier was from the Black Watch battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Separately, four other Afghan civilians died in Kunar when a truck collided with a NATO vehicle, the coalition said.

Two Afghans died in Thursday's crash, while the other two died later of their injuries while undergoing treatment, it said in a statement. Four others were injured.

The NATO statement did not provide further details about what caused the collision.







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