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UN: Afghan civilian deaths rise sharply this year (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Relatives and friends carry coffin of Jawed, 27, one of the two Afghans killed by gunmen in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, from a morgue in a military hospital in Kabul. The FBI is conducting its own probe into the deaths of six Americans citizens who were among eight foreigners gunned down in northeastern Afghanistan in an attack claimed by the Taliban, a US official said Monday.(AFP/Shah Marai)AP - The number of civilians killed in the Afghan war jumped 25 percent in the first half of 2010 compared with the same period last year, with insurgents responsible for the spike, the United Nations said in a report Tuesday.


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