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Afghan Officials Claim NATO Airstrike Killed Civilians

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163113613?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1378662669439Omer Sukru Goksu/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) — Afghan officials are accusing NATO of killing civilians in an airstrike that left at least ten dead in the country’s remote east.

NATO says that it carried out a “precision strike” that killed 10 “enemy forces.”

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that the strike killed 16 civilians, a claim echoed by Kunar Provincial Governor Shukaul Mulk, says the Agence France-Presse. Mulk had previously said that the death toll included 4 militants.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force denied the claims that civilians had been killed in the strike.

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