Children Reported Killed During NATO Airstrike

August 27 2010

Afghanistan

A local Afghan police official says NATO warplanes killed six Afghan children Thursday in an attack on Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, Agence France-Presse reports.

The children were collecting scrap metal close to a militant attack on a nearby NATO outpost, said the provincial police chief in Kunar province on Friday.

Bombs dropped to disperse the militants killed the children, he said.

NATO confirmed it had carried out a precision-guided strike and said it was...

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