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Afghanistan officials say 11 police killed by US 'friendly fire' airstrike
Source: The Guardian
Afghanistan officials say 11 police killed by US 'friendly fire' airstrike
Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul
Tuesday 8 September 2015 20.28 BST
American officials are investigating an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, after local officials said 11 Afghan police officers were killed. If confirmed, the incident is the deadliest recorded incident of friendly fire involving international troops since the war began.
The allegations come from Afghan officials who claim a US airstrike on Sunday killed a group of counter-narcotics police officers on patrol in Garmsir district in the volatile Helmand province.
A US military spokesman, Colonel Brian Tribus, denied that Nato or US forces had conducted any strikes in Helmand on 6 September, but said they had launched an air raid that day in Maiwand district of neighbouring Kandahar province.
However, the area where Afghan officials claim the attack took place is a sparsely populated desert area called Rigestan, or Dasht-e Rigi, a barren plateau without clear borders that stretches across Helmand and Kandahar.
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Sune Engel Rasmussen in Kabul
Tuesday 8 September 2015 20.28 BST
American officials are investigating an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, after local officials said 11 Afghan police officers were killed. If confirmed, the incident is the deadliest recorded incident of friendly fire involving international troops since the war began.
The allegations come from Afghan officials who claim a US airstrike on Sunday killed a group of counter-narcotics police officers on patrol in Garmsir district in the volatile Helmand province.
A US military spokesman, Colonel Brian Tribus, denied that Nato or US forces had conducted any strikes in Helmand on 6 September, but said they had launched an air raid that day in Maiwand district of neighbouring Kandahar province.
However, the area where Afghan officials claim the attack took place is a sparsely populated desert area called Rigestan, or Dasht-e Rigi, a barren plateau without clear borders that stretches across Helmand and Kandahar.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/08/afghanistan-police-killed-us-friendly-fire-airstrike
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