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.

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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.