Date 17 February 2012 Number of casualties 6 | Location Afghanistan | |
Type Aerial attack and Ground-Raid Target suspected Taliban insurgents Executed by United States Air Force, NATO | ||
The Kunar Raid was an incident which took place on February 17, 2012. Six civilians, including a woman and a child were killed in the air and ground raid near the Dewa Gul Valley, a Taliban stronghold in the Chawki district of Kunar province.
Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest NATO's actions. President Hamid Karzai sent a delegation to investigate the incident, the President's office said in a statement, adding that witnesses confirmed that six civilians were killed.
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