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Five Afghan civilians were accidentally killed and two others injured in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, NATO said Monday, in an incident unrelated to a US-led anti-Taliban operation.
The deaths were accidental, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said, adding the dead people had been mistaken for insurgents planting improvised bombs.
"An ISAF airstrike against suspected insurgents accidentally killed five and wounded two civilians in the Zhari district of Kandahar province today," ISAF said in a statement.
"This event was not part of Operation Moshtarak," it added, referring to a massive assault in a region of Helmand province, where 15,000 US-led troops are aiming to eradicate militants from one of their last bastions in the south.
