Kabul (dpa) – More than one US soldier was involved in the shooting spree in Afghanistan that left 16 civilians dead a week ago, a member of the Afghan parliamentary investigative team told dpa on Sunday. The US has said one soldier carried out the dawn attack on a village in Panjwai district in Kandahar province. The Afghan government's probe includes an investigation by lawmakers, the findings of which have been submitted to Parliament, according to lawmaker Naheem Lalai Hameedzai. “After our investigations, we came to know that the killings were not carried out by one single soldier. More than a dozen soldiers went, killed the villagers and then burnt the bodies,” Hameedzai told dpa. “All the villagers that we talked to said there were 15 to 20 men and had conducted a night raid operation in several areas in the village,” he said. “One house where the incident took place is located in a village north of the base. The other two are in another village in the south of the base. There is at least four kilometers between the base and the houses.” Hameedzai also said some of the Afghan women who were killed were sexually assaulted, according to the findings. “According to eyewitnesses, they could not confirm the rape. But the women's clothes were torn,” he said. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Kw7tL Tags: Afghanistan, Murder, Rape, Troops, War Crimes Section: Asia, Central Asia, Latest News, North America
