U.S. Military Apologizes For Civilian Deaths In Afghanistan -- New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — In the wake of charges from Afghan officials that civilians were killed in two attacks over the weekend, the American military apologized for one episode in which a child was killed and two other children wounded and said it was investigating the deaths of several civilians in the other episode.
On Sunday in Logar Province, insurgents fired on a police checkpoint and a nearby American base. The Americans returned fire and later discovered that they had killed two civilians, according to a NATO spokesman and local Afghan officials. Din Mohammed Darwish, the spokesman for the Logar provincial governor, said one of the dead was an 8-year-old girl. Two boys, ages 6 and 9, were wounded, he said. The American military issued a statement apologizing for the deaths.
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