Kabul: US-led coalition forces have killed an Afghan teacher and his two daughters during a night raid in eastern Afghanistan, local officials said.
The troops stormed a house located in Wardak Province, killing the teacher and his daughters aged18 and 20.
Afghan authorities insisted that US-led forces were mistakenly responding to a militant attack against a police post and that the victims had no ties to militants.
The deaths follow the killing of four Afghan civilians after US military forces attacked a residential area in Kunar Province.
The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.
According to a recent UN report on Afghanistan, civilian casualties, already at record levels in the first six months of the year, rose 5 per cent between June and August 2011 compared with the same three-month period in 2010.
Security situation in Afghanistan is fragile despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led forces in the war-ravaged country.
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