US and Turkish Troops May Have Accidentally Gunned Down Civilians During Kabul Airport Attack, Eyewitnesses Say - Sputnik International

182 people were killed and more than 1,300 were injured in Thursday’s deadly Daesh-Khorasan* bomb attack on Kabul’s airport. The fatalities included over 100 Afghan civilians, 13 US troops and as many as 28 Taliban fighters. The terrorist incident took place less than a week before all US forces were expected to pull out of Afghanistan for good.

US and Turkish troops may be responsible for the shooting deaths of an unknown number of Afghan civilians who perished at Kabul’s airport on Thursday, eyewitnesses have told a BBC correspondent.

One eyewitness told the broadcaster that his brother and his brother’s wife died in the “confusion” that followed the terrorist suicide bombing outside Abbey Gate, one of the gates leading into the airport.

    “Somehow I saw the American soldier and besides this there were Turkish soldiers. So the fire come from the bridges, like the tower…from the soldiers,” the man said, referring to areas, including a canal, which were thought to have been manned by NATO forces guarding the entrance to the airport at the time that the attack took place.