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No compensation for Afghan bomb victims

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday April 11, 2003 21:18author by James McKennaauthor email jimmymac61 at hotmail dot com

There will be no compensation for the families of the 11 Afghan civilians killed on Wednesday when a US bomb went astray and hit their home, a US military spokesman said.


The seven women and four men were killed when their house was hit early on Wednesday by a stray 450-kilogram laser-guided bomb in a raid against a group of unknown attackers in the mountains of Paktika in south-east Afghanistan.

Rights watchdog Amnesty International has called for an investigation into the deaths.


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