RT: NATO has officially confirmed that two Australian troops accidentally butchered two Afghan children in southern Afghanistan. The children were
tending cattle when they were slaughtered.
An official statement was made by the alliance after Afghan and
ISAF investigators visited Uruzgan province: "The boys were
killed when Coalition forces fired at what they thought were
insurgent forces," Reuters quoted ISAF head US General Joseph
Dunford as saying.
General Dunford also offered a “personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed."
The two children, 7 and 8 years old, were killed on February 28 during an attack in the southern province of Uruzgan. Australian troops were reportedly responding to an earlier attack in which Taliban militants shot at a helicopter carrying Australian soldiers.
The Australian Defense Department has not revealed further
details on the attack, but confirmed an “operational incident” in
the province, and that there were no Australian Defense Force
casualties, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
General Dunford also offered a “personal apology and condolences to the family of the boys who were killed."
The two children, 7 and 8 years old, were killed on February 28 during an attack in the southern province of Uruzgan. Australian troops were reportedly responding to an earlier attack in which Taliban militants shot at a helicopter carrying Australian soldiers.