Posted by warvictims on July 7, 2008
By Associated Press Online
An Afghan health official says 28 people have died and 141 others are wounded after a suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in central Kabul.
Public health ministry spokesman Abdullah Fahim says the casualties include civilians and security forces.
The bomb exploded during Monday morning rush hour near the Indian Embassy, which sits across the street from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry on a tree-lined street in the city center.
Dozens of Afghan men line up outside the embassy every morning to apply for visas to India. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 7, 2008
By Agence Presse France
US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan said they used air power Friday to destroy two vehicles carrying militants, but a district governor said 22 civilians were killed in the strike.
The coalition said troops called in air support after a base in rugged Nuristan province came under attack, and denied any civilians had been killed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 7, 2008
By Agence France Presse
An Afghan provincial governor said Saturday 16 civilians including women, children and doctors were killed in US-led coalition air strikes but the force insisted the dead were militants.
The strikes were on Friday in the remote district of Waygal in the mountainous northeast province of Nuristan, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border with Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »
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