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(28 Jun 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Mid of two coffins in back of a car
2. Various of a coffin inside car with security officer standing nearby
3. Pan of car driving away with two coffins in back
4. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mohammad Shah Farooqi, Head of investigation unit of Kandahar police:
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"ISAF (International Security Assistance Forces) raided two houses in the seventh district and as a result they martyred eight people and took one man, his name is Rahmatullah."
5. Mid of security forces
6. Police car driving away
STORYLINE
NATO said on Monday that a Taliban commander was among several armed individuals killed during a search operation in Kandahar, but residents said the troops killed eight innocent civilians, including two elderly men.
NATO said in a statement that coalition and Afghan troops went to a compound outside Kandahar city where they immediately came under hostile
fire.
The troops returned fire in self-defence and killed several armed men, including Taliban commander, Shyster Uhstad Khan, who was involved in the
purchase and distribution of roadside bombs, NATO said.
The coalition said the combined force also detained an individual who was suspected of having direct contact with senior Taliban leaders in Kabul and facilitated the delivery of explosive devices to the capital.
Residents describe the search operation differently in Kandahar, where Afghan and coalition forces are ramping up security in hopes of driving out
insurgents, gaining the loyalty of residents and bolstering the Afghan government's control of the Taliban stronghold.
A relative of some of the victims, told The Associated Press at the scene that eight civilians were killed when troops searched two homes around 2 am (2130 GMT) near Bagh-e-Pul.
Mohammad Shah Farooqi, head of the investigation unit of the Kandahar police, agreed, saying, "ISAF (International Security Assistance Forces) raided two houses in the seventh district and as a result they martyred eight people."
But he said he was still working on a final investigative report to send to his superiors.
June has become the deadliest month of the war for NATO troops with at least 99 killed, 56 of them American.
For US troops, the deadliest month was October 2009, with a toll of 59 dead.

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