*Source: DTN News / Int'l Media
(NSI News Source Info) KABUL, Afghanistan - August 9, 2009: NATO helicopters have 'mistakenly' fired on Afghan police, injuring at least five of them, NATO and Afghan officials 
have said. NATO says its forces were responding to small arms fire from insurgents in Ghazi Province early Saturday, when two of its Apache helicopters fired on police by mistake, VOA reported.
have said. NATO says its forces were responding to small arms fire from insurgents in Ghazi Province early Saturday, when two of its Apache helicopters fired on police by mistake, VOA reported. Afghan officials have confirmed the incident but said at least six police were wounded, with at least one in critical condition.
The alliance also declared that it is also investigating reports that two Afghan civilians were mistakenly killed neighboring Uruzgan Province Friday, while troops fired mortars at insurgents. Afghan civilians and security forces have repeatedly come under attacks by the foreign troops in the war torn country.
The number of Afghan civilians killed either in coalition airstrikes or Taliban attacks has surpassed 1,000 in the first half of 2009, according to the UN.
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