American-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, the interior ministry said.
"Seventy-six civilians, most of them women and children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province," the statement said.
Coalition forces bombarded the Azizabad area of Shindand district in Herat province on Friday afternoon, the ministry said. Nineteen victims were women, seven were men, and the rest were children under 15, it said.
However, the coalition denied killing civilians. It said 30 militants had been killed in an air strike in Shindand district in the early hours of Friday and no further air strikes had been launched. Air strikes took place between 1am-2am after Afghan and coalition soldiers were ambushed by insurgents while on a patrol targeting a Taliban commander in Herat, the US military said in a statement.
Remembering that the Afghan government is our ally, who are you going to believe?
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