Posted by warvictims on July 11, 2008
By BBC
A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.
Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. The US military said they were militants.
But local people said the dead were wedding party guests. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 11, 2008
BY BBC Monitoring
Text of report by Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, Public Security, Law and Order website on 10 July
At least four civilians were killed and 26 others reported wounded when LTTE [Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] terrorists opened fire at a passenger bus plying from Monaragala towards Kataragama, at the 49th mile post along the Buttala-Kataragama main road, Friday (11 July), at around 10:15 a.m. [local time]. Read the rest of this entry »
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