{"id":387191,"date":"2018-11-30T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-airstrike-in-helmand-killed-23-civilians-un\/"},"modified":"2018-11-30T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:40:06","slug":"presstv-us-airstrike-in-helmand-killed-23-civilians-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-airstrike-in-helmand-killed-23-civilians-un\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US airstrike in Helmand killed 23 civilians: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>At least 23 civilians, most of them <\/strong><strong>women and children, <\/strong><strong>have been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan\u2019s southern province of Helmand, <\/strong><strong>the UN says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) pointed to a sharp increase in civilian casualties from the air operations in a Friday statement, emphasizing that it was particularly concerned about the high number of children impacted by the bombardment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitial findings indicate that the vast majority of the victims were women and children,\u201d said the statement following its probe of the attack on suspected Taliban targets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Mission is actively working to verify information indicating up to 10 children were killed along with eight women, and three children were injured, including an eight-year-old boy,\u201d added the UNAMA statement.<\/p>\n<p>Local residents insist that at least 30 people were killed as the result of the air strike, which was carried out amid a surge in US-led&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/30\/581565\/Afghanistan-UNAMA-US-air-strikes-civilian-casualties-women-and-children-Helmand-province\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 23 civilians, most of them women and children, have been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan\u2019s southern province of Helmand, the UN says. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) pointed to a sharp increase in civilian casualties from the air operations in a Friday statement, emphasizing that it was particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}