Kunduz raid 'killed 30 civilians'

Kunduz raid

Thirty Afghan civilians were among nearly 100 people killed after Nato aircraft destroyed two stolen oil tankers in the north of the country earlier this month, an Afghan government investigation has concluded.

About 69 other people who died in the bombardment in Kunduz province on September 4 were Taliban fighters, an investigator told the AFP news agency on Sunday.
Witnesses said shortly after the attack a US aircraft had bombed the oil tankers as local villagers were trying to collect free fuel on the invitation of the Taliban fighters.
The tankers had been seized by Taliban fighters as they were travelling from Tajikistan to Kabul.
PHOTO CAPTION
German ISAF soldiers on patrol outside Feyzabad, east of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009.
Al-Jazeera

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