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4 Afghans Killed By NATO Forces In Khost Incident

April 20 2010

Afghanistan

NATO says its soldiers killed four unarmed men on Tuesday as their vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan sped toward the troops, Reuters reports.

Troops fired on the vehicle as it accelerated toward a convoy in Khost province and ignored orders to stop, alliance officials said. There were no weapons found in the car.

A NATO statement said that data on two of the victims were found in a biometric database on insurgents. A spokesman later said that all four may have been...

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