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Al Jazeera: US air raid kills Afghan police in Helmand

Published July 22, 2017 at 5:28 pm

Afghan security personnel sit on their armoured vehicles amid an ongoing battle with Taliban militants in the Gereshk district of Helmand province on July 22. A US airstrike has killed 16 policemen in Afghanistan, officials said July 22, the latest setback to Washington's efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country. The incident took place in Helmand province on Friday as Afghan security forces attempted to clear a village of Taliban militants, Salam Afghan, a police spokesman, told AFP.

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An errant US air raid has killed Afghan police in the southern province of Helmand, the US military and local officials said.

The aerial attack on a compound took place on Friday afternoon after Afghan police had retaken a checkpoint captured by the Taliban a day earlier in Gereshk district, north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.