KABUL: The United Nations is investigating claims that up to 32 civilians were killed in a US air strike in the volatile Afghan province of Kunduz last week, calling any loss of civilian life “unacceptable”.

The strike early last Thursday triggered angry protests in Kunduz, with local officials saying at least 30 people had been killed, many of them children whose mutilated bodies were paraded through the streets by grieving relatives.

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