NATO air strike kills 10 civilians: Afghan president
Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO air strike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said in a statement.
A soldier mans his position at the rear of a British helicopter as it is flown over the Helmand province of Afghanistan on August 31. An Afghan official has said that 10 election campaigners were killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country.
Karzai strongly condemned the incident in his statement, confirming earlier reports of an air strike that killed election workers in Takhar province.
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