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KUNDUZ CITY (SW): A number of civilians wounded in Monday’s aerial raids in Kunduz told Salam Watandar the Taliban were in-charge of security at the seminary where a religious gathering was taking palace.
The wounded locals said a number of civilians lost their lives in this raid.
Separately, Ghulam Hazrat, spokesman for the Afghan National Army (ANA)’s Pamir Division, informed that the air raid has eliminated top Taliban militants, including foreigh fighters. He said this gathering was orchestrated to plan for spring offensives by the Taliban.
He said more than 40 militants got killed and many more got wounded in this attack.
Addressing a press conference, Gen. Mohammad Radmanesh, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said no civilian got killed in this raid in Kunduz’s Dasht-e-Archi district. He asserted the locals have been killed by the Taliban.
Mohammad Naeem Mangal, head of public hospital in Kunduz, has said more than 50 wounded people have been brought for treatment.
As the death toll and identities of the victims still remain ambiguous, the UN on Tuesday launched its investigations into the aerial bombing by the security forces. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has pronounced these reports of serious harm to civilians from airstrike in Kunduz as ‘disturbing’. “Human Rights team on ground establishing facts. All parties reminded of obligations to protect civilians from impact of armed conflict”, it noted in a brief statement as the incident sent shock-waves across the country", it said..
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