KABUL (HRNW) – At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan s southern Helmand province and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a cattle market on Monday, Afghan government and Taliban officials said.
The warring sides blamed each other for the attack on the open-air weekly cattle market in Sangin district, where hundreds of villagers from neighbouring districts had gathered to trade sheep and goats.
A spokesman for Helmand s governor said several rockets fired by Taliban insurgents landed close to the cattle market, killing 23 civilians, including children.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman said the Afghan army fired several rounds of mortar bombs on civilian houses and the cattle market, killing dozens of villagers.
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