The World - News from Oct. 16, 1985
Western diplomats said Soviet forces last week accidentally killed about 30 Afghan soldiers and an unspecified number of civilians with unknown fumes. They said Soviet jet fighters sprayed the fumes near an Afghan military post 16 miles southwest of Kabul and that wind blew the fumes away from the apparent targets, Muslim guerrillas. Diplomats also said that two Protestant missionaries, American John Michael Fredrickson and Briton Isabel Wood, who were working at a Kabul hospital, were expelled last week after being accused of spying.
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