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bemildred

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Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:42 AM Feb 2016

Three killed as Afghan forces raid Swedish-run clinic

Afghan soldiers dragged two hospital patients outside a Swedish-run clinic and shot them along with a 15-year-old boy, an NGO claimed on Friday.

The soldiers raided a health clinic operated by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in Tangi Saidan in Wardak province late on Thursday, killing the three people, Al Jazeera has been told.

"The Afghan security forces barged in the clinic, misbehaved with some of our staff members and dragged out two injured patients from the health clinic along with their caretaker," the SCA's spokesman Muhammad Salahuddin Momand said on Friday.

"The caretaker was a young boy, around 15 years old. All three of them were shot dead outside of our clinic. This is unacceptable. They have violated humanitarian laws. We will protest against this."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/killed-afghan-forces-raid-swedish-run-clinic-160219044441899.html

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