NATO-Afghan Probe of Attack Found No Civilian Deaths
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A NATO-Afghan investigation into an attack near a village in southern Afghanistan found no evidence of civilian casualties, a spokesman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said. President Hamid Karzai has said 52 civilians were killed.
The probe by NATO and the Afghan government “into allegations of civilian casualties near the village of Rigi in Helmand Province on July 23 has thus far revealed no evidence of civilians injured or killed,” U.S. Army Colonel Wayne Shanks, a spokesman for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, said in an e-mailed statement.