US-led raid kills Afghan civilians

Three women and a child have been killed along with a number of Afghan fighters in an air raid led by US troops, the US-led forces in Afghanistan said.

 

The deaths came as US troops were targeting two Afghan leaders in the Paktia province allegedly involved in setting up attacks with explosives, according to a coalition statement on Wednesday.   The troops responded with heavy gunfire when they were fired upon and the clashes "resulted in four civilian deaths [with] one civilian injured", the statement read.  

 

One of the two "militant leaders" targeted in the attack was involved in improvised bomb attacks on international troops while the other was facilitating "foreign fighter operations", according to the statement.

 

The US-led forces did not give a specific number of fighters killed but Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar, a spokesman for the provincial government, put the number at 17.

 

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