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NATO raid triggers deadly clash

Published:Thursday | May 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM
Afghans carry the shrouded bodies of four Afghans, killed in a NATO raid, during an anti-US demonstration in Taloqan, Takhar province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan yesterday. ap

KABUL (AP):

Hundreds of protesters, angered by an overnight NATO raid that they believed had killed four civilians, clashed yesterday with security forces on the streets of a northern Afghan city. The clash killed at least 11 people, government officials said.

The demonstrators fought with police and tried to assault a NATO outpost in the city of Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province, the officials said, adding that some 50 were injured.

The protest was triggered by a NATO raid hours earlier on the outskirts of the city. The coalition said four insurgents died in the operation and that two others were detained.

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Provincial Governor Abdul Jabar Taqwa said the four casualties from the raid were two women and two men who were killed when troops burst into a home in an area known as Gawmal, late Tuesday night. He said that no one in his Government was informed about the raid, and that NATO acted unilaterally.

NATO confirmed it killed four people, two of them women, but said all were armed and tried to fire on its troops. NATO said the raid was conducted by a "combined Afghan and coalition security force," according to coalition policy.