Khost: A US-led airstrike has killed at least six civilians in Afghanistan’s southeastern Khost province, triggering outrage among local Afghan residents. The US-led forces targeted three residential buildings in the city of Khost in southeastern Khost province during a night operation late Wednesday, killing six civilians, including a woman and a government employee, media reports said on Thursday.To protest the US-led war on the country, some residents of Khost city reportedly plan to carry some of the dead bodies to the Khost governor’s office.
US-led foreign forces have not yet issued any official statement on the killings.
The fresh violence against Afghan civilians by US-led forces follows a Tuesday air offensive in northeastern Kunar province , which killed four civilians and wounded another.
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