Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday condemned the killing of "innocent civilians" in a US-led raid which left 15 civilians dead in east of the country, Press TV reported.
The Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed the death toll while refusing to corroborate the locals' accounts that the victims were all civilians including women, children and an Afghan reporter.
The US-led International Security Assistance Force has also been invariably insisting that the mortalities were all Taliban militants.
Afghan protesters stormed the streets the next morning, holding the bodies overhead. Four protesters died in scuffles with Afghan security forces, Reuters reported.
The war-stricken country is currently struggling with unprecedented violence despite the presence of around 110,000, mostly American, foreign soldiers.
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