A BBC correspondent relays a witness account of July 6 US airstrikes in Nangarhar which at last report killed some 47 people. Here, the estimate is put at 52 dead civilians: Afghan survivors tell of wedding bombing Jul 13 - The BBC's Alastair Leithead is the first journalist to reach the scene of a US air raid which Afghan authorities say killed about 50 civilians in the east of the country on 6 July. He reports on what he found: On a hillside high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan there are three charred clearings where the American bombs struck. Scattered around are chunks of twisted metal, blood stains and small fragments of sequinned and brightly decorated clothes - the material Afghan brides wear on their wedding day. After hours of driving to the village deep in the bandit country of Nangarhar's mountains we heard time and again the terrible account of that awful day. What began as celebration ended with maybe 52 people dead , most of them women and children, and others badly injured. read more ...
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A BBC correspondent relays a witness account of July 6 US airstrikes in Nangarhar which at last report killed some 47 people. Here, the estimate is put at 52 dead civilians: Afghan survivors tell of wedding bombing Jul 13 - The BBC's Alastair Leithead is the first journalist to reach the scene of a US air raid which Afghan authorities say killed about 50 civilians in the east of the country on 6 July. He reports on what he found: On a hillside high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan there are three charred clearings where the American bombs struck. Scattered around are chunks of twisted metal, blood stains and small fragments of sequinned and brightly decorated clothes - the material Afghan brides wear on their wedding day. After hours of driving to the village deep in the bandit country of Nangarhar's mountains we heard time and again the terrible account of that awful day. What began as celebration ended with maybe 52 people dead , most of them women and children, and others badly injured. read more ...