NATO PROBES REPORTS RAID KILLED 45 AFGHAN CIVILIANS
Baku, July 26 (AZERTAC). International forces in Afghanistan say they are urgently investigating reports as many as 45 civilians died and 50 wounded in an air strike in Helmand province on Friday.
Nato`s initial investigation found no evidence, but a BBC journalist visiting Regey village spoke to several people who said they had seen the incident. At the time, dozens were sheltering in the village from nearby fighting. A significant civilian loss of life would be rare this year as a new policy of restraint has reduced casualties.
Witnesses said the attack had come in daylight as dozens sheltered from fighting in nearby Joshani. For several months there has been a significant reduction in civilian casualties and very few air strikes under a new policy of restraint ordered by Gen Stanley McChrystal. He was forced from his post recently after talking too frankly to journalists.
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