Afghans demonstrate after children die in troop raid

AFP
Monday, Sept 1, 2008

Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets Monday in protest at what they said was the murder of four civilians, including two baby boys, in an early morning raid by international troops.

The demonstrators showed journalists the bloodied bodies of the children shot dead with their father on the eastern outskirts of the capital, an AFP reporter said.

“They attacked the house and killed two children, almost two years-old, a woman and a man,” Mohammad Naweed from Hoodkhail village said.

Naweed said “foreign forces” also took three men from the house after blasting open the main gate and opening fire.

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It was not clear if the woman killed was the children’s mother.

Local television stations showed pictures of women wailing as they were standing by the bodies demanding President Hamid Karzai stand down.

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