14 women and children were killed by ISAF bombs in Afghanistan on Saturday. 6 children were among the wounded.
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters)– An air strike called in by NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan killed 12 children and two women, Afghan officials said on Sunday, one of the worst civilian death tolls by foreign forces in months. Fourteen women and children have been killed after Nato warplanes bombed their homes in south-west Afghanistan.Six others were wounded in the attack, according to local reports, after the airstrike in Nawzad district, in the country's volatile Helmand province.Two women, five girls and seven boys were among the dead, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial government.The Daily Mail article contains photos from the scene.
UPDATE: Now this:
Separately the governor of Nuristan on Sunday told AFP that 18 civilians and 20 police were killed by "friendly fire" during US-led air strikes against insurgents in his troubled northeastern province. [...] Major James said those allegations were also being investigated."ISAF has sent a fact-finding team to investigate the allegations about civilian and police casualties in Nuristan," he said.
"Our initial reporting does not indicate civilian casualties in that air strike," he added.