KANDAHAR/TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Fifteen people have been killed in an airstrike that targeted a hotel on the Kandahar-Uruzgan highway near the capital of central Uruzgan province last night, officials said Tuesday.
Local residents said the deceased persons wanted to travel to Iran in search of work and were civilians, but security forces claimed they were Taliban militants.
The airstrike hit the hotel on Monday evening in Sarkhabat area of Shah Wali district of Kandahar near Tirinkot, the capital of Uruzgan.
Uruzgan civil hospital director . . .
