NATO airstrike kills at least 27 civilians in Afghanistan | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

NATO airstrike kills at least 27 civilians in Afghanistan | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire: “A NATO airstrike killed at least 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan, hundreds of miles away from the town of Marjah, where a large-scale offensive against Taliban militants is underway, the Wall Street Journal said on its website on Monday, quoting Afghan officials.

The airstrike reportedly hit a group of minibuses carrying women and children in a remote area near the border between the Uruzgan and Daykundi provinces.

The paper quoted the NATO’s Afghanistan task force as saying its forces believed the minibuses were carrying insurgents.”

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