Kabul: At least eight civilians, including women and children, have been killed in a US-led NATO air-raid in the Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand on Friday, local officials said.
The officials said the attack was carried out at 2 pm (local time) after Taliban attacked NATO forces in the area.
NATO has not commented on the incident.
In a separate incident, at least four people were killed when police opened fire during an anti-US demonstration held in the southern province of Zabul on Friday.
A provincial police chief said that people took to the streets to protest an attack by the US-led NATO forces in the Qalad District of Zabul province that killed three Afghan civilians.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans growing increasingly outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.
The rising death toll of Afghan civilians as a result of NATO and US military operations has increased tension between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his US-led Western allies.
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