{"id":181,"date":"2010-04-12T16:42:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=181"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:42:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:42:42","slug":"nato-firing-kills-afghan-civilians-in-kandahar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/12\/181\/","title":{"rendered":"Nato firing kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan-soldier\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan-soldier.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"186\" \/>At least four civilians were killed and 18 others wounded when Nato forces fired at a bus in southern Kandahar province, sparking angry protests.<br \/>Nato expressed its &#8220;deep regret&#8221; over the incident and said forces treated the injured at the scene.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Crowds gathered in Kandahar shouting slogans and burning tyres. President Hamid Karzai also condemned the firing.<br \/>Civilian deaths at Nato hands is the source of increasing friction between the Afghan government and Nato.<br \/>Last week Nato admitted its forces were responsible for the deaths of three women during a botched night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in February.<br \/>And it is also investigating whether its forces killed four civilians in an air strike in southern Helmand province in early April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Investigation continues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bus that was attacked on Monday was travelling from Kandahar to western Herat province, provincial officials said.<br \/>Later about 200 men took to the streets of Kandahar to protest against the killings shouting, &#8220;death to America, death to Karzai, death to this government&#8221;, the AFP news agency reported.<br \/>Nato is continuing to investigate the incident. A statement says the patrol warned off the approaching vehicle with a flashlight and flares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perceiving a threat when the vehicle approached once more at an increased rate of speed, the patrol attempted to warn off the vehicle with hand signals prior to firing upon it,&#8221; the statement says.<br \/>Nato and Afghan forces are currently engaged in a massive anti-Taliban operation to rid parts of southern Helmand province of militants.<br \/>Nato officials have indicated that the offensive will switch focus to Kandahar in the coming months.<br \/>Since taking up his position as top commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal has said reducing civilian casualties is a key priority for Nato.<br \/>He has introduced changes to Nato tactics aimed at cutting the risks to civilians. Measures include reducing the number of air strikes and night raids.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC News<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least four civilians were killed and 18 others wounded when Nato forces fired at a bus in southern Kandahar province, sparking angry protests.Nato expressed its &#8220;deep regret&#8221; over the incident and said forces treated the injured at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nato firing kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/12\/181\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nato firing kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar - SunniOnline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least four civilians were killed and 18 others wounded when Nato forces fired at a bus in southern Kandahar province, sparking angry protests.Nato expressed its &#8220;deep regret&#8221; 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