Civilians may have been shot and killed by U.S. forces during Kabul airport bombing mayhem
Kabul, August 29 (RHC)-- According to reports from Afghanistan, some of the dozens of civilians reportedly killed in a suicide blast outside Kabul’s airport may have been shot by U.S. soldiers amid the chaos caused by the deadly explosion.
Eyewitnesses who survived Thursday’s attack, which claimed at least 95 lives and left 150 people wounded, told the BBC that not everyone who died that day had been killed by the suicide bomber.
Mohammed, a taxi driver from London, had traveled to Kabul to help his family secure safe passage out of the Afghan capital. He and his wife were killed in the explosion outside the airport’s Abbey Gate, while two of their children remain missing. His brother and others interviewed by the BBC’s correspondent in Kabul said that their family and relatives weren’t killed in the blast, but by gunfire in the resulting “confusion.” Mohammed’s brother claimed that the firing came from the direction where U.S. soldiers guarding the airport’s perimeter were stationed.
One Afghan who spoke to the BBC claimed that a civilian who had worked with American forces was shot to death by foreign soldiers in the aftermath of the suicide blast. “The guy [had] served [the] US army for years. And the reason he lost his life – he wasn’t killed by the Taliban. He wasn’t killed by ISIS,” the man said, adding that the victim was found with a bullet hole in his head with no other injuries.
