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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Air attack kills 17 policemen 'by mistake'
2019-05-17
UNCONFIRMED reporting.
[Aljazeera] An air attack has killed 17 policemen by mistake during a battle with the Taliban just outside the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, officials said.

Attaullah Afghan, the head of the provincial council, said the attack took place on Thursday while Afghan police were fighting the Taliban near the city.

Fourteen policemen were wounded in the attack, he added.

A spokesperson for the provincial governor said the strike was carried out by NATO Resolute Support mission force in the Nahr-e-Seraj area of the Helmand-Kandahar highway.

There was no immediate response to a query to the US military in Kabul. American forces regularly back Afghan troops when asked to.

Helmand's Governor Mohammad Yasin said the air raid is being investigated. A Taliban statement claimed US forces were behind it.
Interesting update from Tolo News at 12:20 p.m. EDT:
The Ministry of Interior Affairs in a statement confirmed the casualties but said an investigation has been carried out to find out whether it was due to a friendly airstrike or due to the clashes with the Taliban.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  Such things do happen, and it is always sad when it does. Fog of war and all that.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-05-17 08:36  

#1  Sooner or later we will have an inter-agency shootout here in the US. Popcorn.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-05-17 08:12  

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