US Missiles Kill 4 UN Workers and Scores of Afghans

28/04/2001| IslamWeb

KABUL, Afghanistan, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -The United Nations, has appealed for protection of civilians in Afghanistan after four workers from a UN mine-clearing organisation were killed in a raid on Kabul. (Read photo caption below)

They were the first independently confirmed civilian deaths since the start of the US-led attacks.Taleban officials meanwhile, said "tens of people" have been killed since the raids began on Sunday but that their spiritual leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and Osama Bin Laden were still alive. The northern cities of Mazar-e-Sharif and Konduz were also reported to have been hit in the strikes, designed to weaken the Taleban and disrupt Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation, which the US says was behind the suicide attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September.
According to the United Nations, those killed were employees of Afghan Technical Consultants and were trained in the removal of landmines.U.S. officials said targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad were on the attack list in the campaign to flush out suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and punish the Taliban for harboring him.
CNN's Kamal Hyder reported Jalalabad airport was struck overnight and continued to burn Tuesday.
Unlike Sunday, no British forces were involved in Monday's attacks
Two bodies could be seen lying in the rubble of the Afghan Technical Consultancy.
The four people killed overnight in the Afghan Technical Consultancy, which runs some demining operations in one of the world's most heavily mined countries, were sleeping when the building was hit, apparently by a cruise missile. The building was destroyed.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Taliban sources say this is the rubble of a U.N. building destroyed by U.S. missiles.