Monday, May 30, 2011

Investigate deaths of children in Afghanistan attack

The strength of the Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Afghanistan said it is investigating allegations of Afghan officials about the deaths of 32 civilians including 12 children, and 20 policemen in two bombings recorded in the South and East Afghanistan. The latest bombing took place on Saturday, which killed 12 children and two women and six others were injured in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand, according to Afghan official sources reported.

"The dead are five girls, seven boys and two girls, and among the six wounded were three young men and a woman," said the Helmand governor's office, one of the traditional strongholds of Taliban insurgents. The bombing occurred in Naw Zad district after a group of insurgents attacked soldiers from the NATO mission, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said the provincial governor's spokesman Daud Ahmadi.

According to ISAF, the Afghan military command has ordered Southwestern sending an investigative team to the area after "known information" about the "alleged killing of civilians" after the bombing, without specifying the number of victims. The organization said it was also investigating another bombing that killed dozens of insurgents in the eastern province of Nuristan, but also, said an official in the area, "18 civilians and 20 policemen." Our military is working hard and in coordination with the Afghan government to do everything we can to prevent casualties civilesportavoz White House.

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