Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike
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title:
Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike
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The Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike refers to the killing of about 37 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, and injuring about 27 others by a United States military airstrike on 3 November 2008. The group was celebrating a wedding at a housing complex in the village of Wech Baghtu, a Taliban stronghold in the Shah Wali Kot District of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The airstrike followed a firefight between US troops and Taliban forces stationed on a mountain behind the wedding party
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Civilians air strike mass killing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike
date created:
2010-08-23T03:27:16Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T20:38:47Z
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