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  • Aug 25th, 2007
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The United States said Friday it would conduct a thorough probe with Britain into the circumstances under which three British Nato troops were killed in a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan.

"The United States is deeply saddened by the death of three British soldiers in Afghanistan and the wounding of two others in a friendly fire incident involving ordinance dropped by a US aircraft," said Kurt Volker, the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs. "We will investigate this tragic incident thoroughly with our British allies," he said. "We are committed to making information available as quickly as possible."

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2007


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