Business Recorder - News https://www.brecorder.com/ Business Recorder en-Us Copyright 2026 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:59:50 +0500 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:59:50 +0500 60 Nato air strike kills Afghan family of six https://www.brecorder.com/news/3873/nato-air-strike-kills-afghan-family-of-six <p class="MsoPlainText"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/air_strike_400.jpg" width="400" height="253" />JALALABAD: Afghan officials said Monday that six members of the same family were killed overnight when a Nato air strike mistakenly hit their home." The airstrike was originally targeting three insurgents who were planting mines on a road.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">One missile mistakenly hit a house and killed six civilians, all members of the same family," Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, Nangarhar provincial spokesman, told AFP.</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The incident came the day after President Hamid Karzai accused Nato troops of killing some 50 civilians in five days of airstrikes in the neighbouring Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan.</p> <p><center><b><i>Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011</i></b><i> </i></center></p> JALALABAD: Afghan officials said Monday that six members of the same family were killed overnight when a Nato air strike mistakenly hit their home." The airstrike was originally targeting three insurgents who were planting mines on a road.

One missile mistakenly hit a house and killed six civilians, all members of the same family," Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, Nangarhar provincial spokesman, told AFP.

The incident came the day after President Hamid Karzai accused Nato troops of killing some 50 civilians in five days of airstrikes in the neighbouring Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan.

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