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US drone attack kills 5 people in Afghanistan

This file photo shows two freshly assembled US Grey Eagle unmanned aerial vehicles as they sit on the tarmac at Forward Operating Base Shan in Logar Province, Afghanistan. (© AFP)

A US assassination drone has killed five people in Afghanistan’s southeastern Logar Province, Press TV reports.

The attack took place in the Baraki Barak district on Saturday evening at 20:00 local time (1530 GMT), district governor Mohammad Rahim Amin said on Sunday.

The Afghan official added that a local Taliban commander, identified as Mullah Habib Rahman, was among the dead.

The US regularly uses drones for airstrikes and spying missions in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border, among other places.

Washington claims that the targets of the drone attacks are militants, but local officials and witnesses maintain that civilians have been the main victims of the attacks over the past few years.

Hundreds of civilians are believed to have been killed and many others wounded in attacks by the unmanned aerial vehicles in the country over the past few years. Senior Afghan officials have repeatedly criticized Washington for the drone strikes.


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