13 civilians were killed and five others were wounded in an American airstrike
Incident- Date
- Apr 2, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Uruzgan: Unknown
- Types of incident
- Air Strikes
- Conflict parties
- Coalition forces
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- Summary of incident
Mohammad Krim Karemi, deputy of the provincial council in Oruzgan, claimed that 13 civilians were killed and five others were wounded in an American airstrike on a hotel along the Oruzgan-Kandahar highway. Another official, Aminullah Tokhi, head of the provincial hospital, put the death toll at 10 civilians. The provincial governor’s office and the police chief of Kandahar, Tadin Khan, denied any civilian casualties in the airstrike, insisting that all of those killed were Taliban fighters.
- Source_1
Afghan War Casualty Report: March 29-April 4, Fahim Abed, New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report.html.
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