Afghan women, children amid 16 killed in US Army air strikes

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Afghan women, children amid 16 killed in US Army air strikes

KABUL: At least sixteen persons including women and children were killed in US Army air strikes in Afghanistan.

Afghan police officials said that the US fighter planes bombed the outskirts of Heart, which resulted in the death of 16 persons including six women and to children. Police said that three among the dead apparently look like militants, but the others were civilians.

However, US Army claimed that the militants’ commander Ghulam Yahya Akbari was targeted in air strike killing 15 militants including Ghulam Yahya. Police said that Commander Ghulam Yahya was not included among those killed.