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U.S. Chopper Attacks Pakistan by Mistake, Wounds 3
A U.S. helicopter gunship mistakenly strayed into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan while chasing militants and wounded three civilians in an attack, a Pakistani security official said on Saturday. Villagers in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border said one person was also killed in the Friday night raid but the region's security chief said no one was killed.
"Look! Look! They killed me! I'm dead!"
"Shuddup. You ain't dead." |
"The helicopter entered Pakistan due to a navigational error," the security official, Mehmood Shah, told Reuters. "Three civilians were injured."
Villagers said the helicopter fired on a van, wounding the three, than made a second attack in which one person was killed. Body parts had been found at the scene of the second attack, they said.
| I'll wait for the DNA analysis. |
Posted by: Steve White 2004-03-20 |
