8 local security personnel killed in Ghazni airstrike

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): Eight local uprising persons have been killed and four others injured during airstrike in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Tuesday.

Based on wrong information, the local upraising security personnel were targeted in an airstrike in the Hataqul area of Jaghori district, Governor’s spokesman Mohammad Arif Noori said.

It was not yet to be ascertained if the strike was carried out by Afghan or foreign forces.

Provincial Council Head Naseer Ahmad Faqiri said 12 personnel of the National Directorate of Security suffered causalities in the airstrike.

It is worth mentioning the security forces suffered casualties in similar incidents in the past.

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