Karzai condemns NATO killing civilians

Schoolchildren among dead:

Afghanistan: Afghan President Hamid Karzai denounced on Monday the deaths of 10 civilians, including eight schoolchildren, in an air attack of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Kunar province.

Karzai condemned the crime, expressed his sadness, and ordered an investigation on the incident carried out against the Afghan population by the occupying forces.

An official report followed the one made by Kunar Provincial Governor, Sabed Fazlullah Wahedi, who said that NATO warplanes attacked a remote north-eastern region.

Wahedi noted that they could not go to that far-off region due to the presence of insurgents there, but the oldest people in the village said that the air raid took the lives of 10 civilians.

Spokespersons from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), led by NATO, refused to make statements on the issue, and just said they will examine the information.

However, those sources reported that joint forces of the Afghan Army and foreign occupying troops carried out an armed clash with dozens of insurgents in the north-western province of Badghis.

Beijing, Tuesday, Prensa Latina