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US soldier goes house-to-house in Afghanistan killing 15 civilians, incl 9 children, as they slept in their beds. Obama monitoring situation.
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[link to www.presstv.ir]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (BNO NEWS) — A U.S. service member was arrested on early Sunday morning after going on a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan, killing as many as seventeen civilians and injuring others, officials said.
The attack happened at around 3:45 a.m. local time when a U.S. soldier opened fire in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province. “A U.S. Army soldier, at around 3 o’clock, came out [of his base] and turned his gun at the people,” a spokesman for the governor said, adding that civilians had been wounded.
Few details about the number of casualties were immediately available, but a member of the Kandahar provincial council who visited the scene said as many as 17 civilians had been killed. Major Jason Wagner, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), could not confirm those figures.
[link to www.thaindian.com]
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