Horror images of US-led attack

2008-09-08 21:32

This video frame grab image taken from one of two undated videos shows a woman beside what appears to be bodies wrapped in blankets and shrouds in Azziabad, Afghanistan.

Kabul - The bodies of several children lay dead in two videos that show the aftermath of a US-led operation the Afghan government and UN say killed 90 civilians.

The video, apparently taken with a cellphone, is grainy and details such as a precise body count are difficult to make out.

A second video shows gruesome detail of children severely disfigured.

The two videos, both obtained on Monday by The Associated Press, give weight to Afghan and UN findings that scores of civilians - including 60 children and 15 women - died in the August 22 raid in the village of Azizabad.

A US investigation found that only seven civilians died.

But the US on Sunday said it would reopen the investigation because of emerging new evidence.

- AP