Victims’ families tell their stories following Nato airstrike in Afghanistan

‘I took some flesh home and called it my son.’ The Guardian interviews 11 villagers

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• Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Kunduz
• guardian.co.uk, Friday 11 September 2009 20.05 BST

Fazel Muhamad, 48, holding pictures of family members who were killed in the attack. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage of two fuel tankers that had been hit by a Nato airstrike. They picked their way through a heap of almost a hundred charred bodies and mangled limbs which were mixed with ash, mud and the melted plastic of jerry cans, looking for their brothers, sons and cousins. They called out their names but received no answers. By this time, everyone was dead.

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