At least seven civilians bit the dust in an
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in Burhani Khel village of Sayed Abad district of Maidan Wardak province, a number of residents claimed on Monday as Afghan government faces strong criticisms over a dramatic surge in civilian death and amid rising violence in multiple fronts across the country.
The residents said that seven people were returning from a funeral ceremony when their car was targeted by an airstrike in Burkhan Khel village in Sayed Abad district.
Some angry residents to the incident staged a protest to press the Afghan government to launch an investigation into the incident.
"They came here for a funeral ceremony. They ate food and wanted to return. Father, son, two sons-in-law, one guest and two children were among the seven people [killed in the airstrike]," said Hamed, a resident of Sayed Abad district.
"He was a driver. His son was a student, another was a laborer, another man was working in a company, one of them was his cousin and was a resident of Kabul. They all were here for a funeral ceremony," said Basir, another resident of Sayed Abad.
"Either the government take Wardak out of the Afghanistan map or announce its enmity with us or consider us as their people," said Khalil Rahman, a resident.
Previously, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense reported the killing of at least nine Taliban
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members in an airstrike in Maidan Wardak.
Also last week, a number of residents of Sayed Abad district who had taken some injured children to a hospital in Kabul said that two non-combatants were killed and eight others, most of them children, were maimed in an airstrike in Qala-e-Amir village which is located in Tangi area of the province.
Back in March, President Ashraf Ghani
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ordered the National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to abide by strict rules for preventing civilian casualties in their operations against turbans. Despite that, several incidents that targeted the civilians were reported in various regions of the country.