WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Preliminary findings indicate that 12 civilians were killed on Sunday in an airstrike in Maidan Wardak province during operations conducted by pro-government forces, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a press release on Tuesday.
“All of the victims were women and children from the same family whose house in the village of Mullah Hafez, Jaghato district, Maidan Wardak, was destroyed by aerial ordnance late on 23 September. Ten of those killed were children whose ages ranged from six to 15. Eight were girls,” the release said.
It was not immediately clear whether the strike was carried out by the US-led international coalition or the Afghan Air Force, the release added.
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