Al Jazeera English - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Deadly blast hits Afghanistan: "Monday's suicide attack came just hours after it emerged that a Nato air raid had killed at least 33 civilians in Uruzgan province on Sunday.
Nato on Sunday confirmed that it fired on a group of vehicles that it believed contained fighters, only to discover later that women and children were in the cars.
Isaf, Nato's force in Afghanistan, did not provide a figure of how many died.
The deaths in Uruzgan came on the heels of an emotional appeal by Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, for international troops to try harder to prevent civilian deaths.
He told parliament on Saturday that although progress was being made in limiting civilian casualties, people were still dying.
He held up a picture of an eight-year-old girl who lost 12 relatives in a Nato rocket attack during the second day of the assault on Marjah - Operation Moshtarak - which began on February 13.
The latest deaths came as a joint Afghan, Nato and US force battled Taliban fighters in Marjah, in southern Helmand province, in an attempt to take the town and surrounding areas from their control."
Nato on Sunday confirmed that it fired on a group of vehicles that it believed contained fighters, only to discover later that women and children were in the cars.
Isaf, Nato's force in Afghanistan, did not provide a figure of how many died.
The deaths in Uruzgan came on the heels of an emotional appeal by Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, for international troops to try harder to prevent civilian deaths.
He told parliament on Saturday that although progress was being made in limiting civilian casualties, people were still dying.
He held up a picture of an eight-year-old girl who lost 12 relatives in a Nato rocket attack during the second day of the assault on Marjah - Operation Moshtarak - which began on February 13.
The latest deaths came as a joint Afghan, Nato and US force battled Taliban fighters in Marjah, in southern Helmand province, in an attempt to take the town and surrounding areas from their control."
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