 HEART: US-led coalition and Afghan troops shot dead a 16-year-old girl in a gunfight that erupted early Saturday as they were trying to arrest an alleged extremist in western Afghanistan, officials and relatives said. | “A gun was aimed at members of the assault force from the top of a flight of stairs. Shots were fired, resulting in the death of a woman holding a loaded AK47 assault rifle...” |
The troops entered a compound in the city of Farah in the early hours of the morning to "capture a known Afghan extremist," a coalition spokesman said. While they were questioning some of the occupants, others ran into another building, Lieutenant Marcelo Calero said.
"When members of the assault force entered the building in an attempt to clear it, a gun was aimed at members of the assault force from the top of a flight of stairs. Shots were fired, "resulting in the death of a woman holding a loaded AK47 assault rifle," he said.
| Life's tough. It's tougher, but shorter, when you're armed and stoopid. |
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