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Roadside Bomb Kills 5 in Afghan East
A roadside bomb hit foreign troops in Eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing five Afghan civilians and wounding 15 others.At least nine NATO service members and a number of Afghan police are among the wounded, officials said. The incident occurred in a rush morning hour in the Rodat District as a military convoy was crossing the area. Master Sergeant Jeff Lotfin, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, said two Afghan civilians were killed and nine ISAF troops and four Afghan police were among those wounded by the bomb in Nangarhar Province. Jamil Pardes, head of a hospital in the provincial capital Jalalabad, said 29 people had been treated for wounds and two civilians had been killed. Provincial government spokesman Abdul Zia Abdulzai said two had died, both of them children. Civilian deaths, especially children, are an increasingly sensitive issue in the Afghanistan conflict. The independent human rights group Afghanistan Rights Monitor said today that more than 1,050 children under 18 died last year in war-related incidents. The nationalities of the wounded NATO troops in Wednesday bombing are not confirmed but most of NATO forces in the area are Americans. Posted by: Fred 2010-01-07 |
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