TEMPO.CO, Kabul -
TEMPO.CO, Kabul –NATO airstrikes has killed at least five Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, March 6, 2014.
"At 3:30am this morning, due to a NATO air strike in Charkh district, Logar province, five service members of the Afghan national army were martyred and eight others were wounded," defence ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said on his Twitter account, as quoted by Al Jazeera.
"We condemn the attack on the Afghan National Army in Logar. The president has ordered an investigation."" Aimal Faizi, a spokesman for Karzai, said as reported by Reuters.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) issued a statement confirming that at least five Afghan soldiers had been killed accidentally.
Despite admitting to having launched a deadly attack, NATO refused to provide details about the incident.
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