Commander of the US-led foreign military forces in Afghanistan has apologized over a deadly airstrike which killed 18 civilians in the eastern Logar province earlier this week
Commander of the US-led foreign military forces in Afghanistan has apologized over a deadly airstrike which killed 18 civilians in the eastern Logar province earlier this week.
“General John Allen flew to Logar to see local leaders and t
he population to apologize and offer condolences to the families,” NATO spokesman Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson stated on Friday.
On Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the Logar attack, noting that 18 people killed in the NATO airstrike in the village of Sajawand a day earlier were all civilians.
"Attacks by NATO that cause life and property losses to civilians under no circumstances could be justified and are not acceptable," Karzai said in a statement.
The Afghan president also criticized NATO for not being able to provide an explanation for the piles of bodies of the women and children killed in the strike.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for Karzai said the president decided to curtail his trip to China because of the attack in Logar and deadly bombings which killed more than 20 people in Kandahar, in the south.
