- US military officials say they had no information about
claims a US bombing raid in eastern Afghanistan has destroyed a village
and killed more than 100 civilians.
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- Witnesses claim warplanes made four passes over Kama
Ado, 30 miles south of Jalalabad, apparently dropping more than 25
bombs.
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- However, Pentagon officials have said previously that
they are focusing their bombing campaign on two parts of Afghanistan -
southern Kandahar province where the Taliban still have control, and the
mountains south of Jalalabad, where more than 600 non-Afghan Taliban
fighters
and al Qaida members are thought to be hiding in mountain caves.
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- Kama Ado is located in the foothills of the White
Mountains,
where the hide-outs are reportedly located.
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- "After the bombs stopped falling, we heard the
voices
of children and people and we were very frightened. We didn't know what
to do at first, then we decided to save them," said Lalgul, a lolcal
farmer at Jalalabad Public Health Hospital where he had brought one of
the survivors, a 10-year-old boy.
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- "Out of a family of 40, only this boy and his
grandmother
survived."
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- The boy, Iqhaluddin, suffered lung damage and broken
ribs from the bomb's shockwave.
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- Doctors said he was expected to recover fully.
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