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5 civilians killed in air raid in Afghan Logar province

By: Our Staff Reporter | August 26, 2011, 6:06 pm |

Five civilians were killed when warplanes of NATO-led troops carried out an airstrike against the Taliban in Logar province, 60 km south of capital city of Kabul, a spokesman for the provincial administration said on Friday. "A joint unit of Afghan and NATO-led troops came in contact with the Taliban in Baraki Barak district overnight triggering a gun battle that left three Afghan army soldiers dead and a foreign soldier injured," Din Mohammad Darwish told Xinhua. He said in retaliation, troops called on air support and that the air power pounded a compound used by insurgents to fire on security forces. In the aftermath of the strike, conducted at around 00:30 a.m. local time Friday, troops found that five civilians including three women were killed in the incident.