An initial fatality figure emerges from, what was earlier described as, a preemptive US drone strike in the vicinity of the Kabul International Airport, showing that the attack killed nine members of an Afghan family, including six children.
“A brother of one of those killed” gave the figure to a local journalist working with CNN, the network reported on Sunday.
The US Central Command claimed that the UAV attack had allegedly targeted a potential attacker with the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.