On New
Year’s Afghan Official offers Eve Death details
The
dead body of Afghan Children was surrounded by their relatives. On Thursday, 1
Jan, 2015 the rocket strike on a wedding party in Helmand province south of
Kabul, Afghanistan. The Police of Afghan
were investigating an apparent rocket strike on a wedding party. Strike rocket
killed at least 28 people, many of them women and children, an official said on
Thursday, as President Ashraf Ghani marked the country's transition to full
sovereignty after the formal end of the 13-year international military mission.
The army was fighting the Taliban in a volatile region of Southern
Helmand province when artillery shells fired by the military hit a nearby
wedding party, killing at least 28 people on New Year’s Eve.
Din Mohammad, part of a presidential delegation sent to Sangin district to
investigate the incident, says there was a heavy firefight with insurgents at
the time.
He says two soldiers have been arrested in
connection with the incident and will face unspecified charges.
The
shells hit the house where a wedding party had gathered to welcome the bride.
Along with the 28 killed, more than 50 people were wounded.
Afghan
forces took over responsibility for nationwide security as of this month
following the drawdown of NATO and U.S. troops.
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