NATO Vehicle Kills Afghan Woman 'Accidently'
VOA News April 06, 2011
Tensions are rising in the Afghan capital where one woman is dead after getting hit by a NATO convoy.
Afghan police say another woman and a child were injured in the accident Wednesday and hospitalized.
NATO confirmed a three-vehicle convoy accidentally struck and killed a woman as it traveled through Kabul.
Following the accident, angry Afghans gathered at the scene. The French news agency said some threw stones at international forces.
Afghan police initially said three people - two women and one man - were killed in the incident, saying soldiers had opened fire on the crowd.
Police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai later retracted that information, saying it was based on erroneous eyewitness accounts.
Separately Wednesday, NATO said it killed seven insurgents in a failed attack on a base in eastern Afghanistan.
A NATO release said the insurgents used rifles and rocket-propelled grenades to assault the base in the city of Jalalabad Tuesday.
It said NATO forces and an attack helicopter returned fire. NATO said none of its forces were injured in the attack.
And the governor of Kunar province, Fazelullah Wahidi, said Wednesday that NATO and Afghan forces have killed more than 130 insurgents during a week-long offensive in the eastern province. He says many of the fighters are from outside Afghanistan.
A NATO spokesman said more than 70 insurgents have been killed in the operation. Six NATO soldiers were also killed in the area last week.
In other news, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, announced Wednesday in Kabul a $50 million donation from the U.S. government towards the Afghan government's reconciliation efforts with the Taliban.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.
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