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British defence officials said last night they were investigating reports that civilians, including women and children, were killed in an air strike by Nato forces in southern Afghanistan.
Angry villagers took 18 bodies - including badly mangled bodies of women and children - to the governor's house in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, Haji Adnan Khan, a tribal leader in the city who had seen the bodies, was reported as saying. He said there might be more bodies trapped under the rubble.
A BBC reporter in Lashkar Gah said he saw the bodies - three women and the rest children ranging in age from six months to 15. The families brought the bodies from their village in the Nad Ali district.
Villagers say 18 civilians killed in Nato air strike in Afghanistan | World news | The Guardian
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Inexcusable incidents like this make news like that below quite cheering;
Iraq is a disaster because the populace, and the world at large, are never going to forget atrocities such as Abu Ghraib and Falujah. Afghanistan won't forget the callous disregard for civilian life either.