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Sharafuddin Sharafyar, Reuters: "US-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan yesterday, most of them children, the country's nterior Ministry said. The coalition denied killing civilians. Civilian deaths in military operations have become an emotive issue among Afghans, many of whom feel international forces take too little care when launching air strikes, undermining support for their presence. 'Seventy-six civilians, most of them women and children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province,' the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Coalition forces bombarded the Azizabad area of Shindand district in Herat province on Friday afternoon, the ministry said. Nineteen of the victims were women, seven of them men and the rest children under the age of 15, it said."

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