World IN BRIEF : AFGHANISTAN : Jet Bombed Soviet Village, Kabul Says
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Afghanistan admitted that one of its warplanes accidentally bombed a Soviet border village, state-run Kabul Radio said. It said the Afghan air force jet encountered technical difficulties during a routine training mission and accidentally strayed into Soviet airspace, dropping bombs that left four people dead. Soviet news agencies had reported that a Soviet-made SU-25 fighter-bomber dropped up to four bombs on the village of Namadguti-Poen.
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