List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2007)
List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan in 2007 January 12, 2007 – Afghan police claim 13 civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in the Garmser district of Helmand Province. NATO claims "no evidence of any civilian casualties". January 24, 2007 – NATO troops fired at a vehicle which failed to stop in the Gereshk district of Helmand province. The bullets killed a passerby. February 17, 2007 – An unarmed man acting in a suspicious manner was shot and killed by Canadian troops near the village of Senjaray 12 km west of Kandahar. February 17, 2007 – NATO troops shot and killed a civilian who was running through convoy near Kandahar. February 18, 2007 – Canadian troops mistakenly gunned down an Afghan National Police officer and a homeless beggar after their convoy was ambushed in Kandahar City late Sunday. February 27, 2007 – Canadian troops opened fire at a Toyota car that failed to stop at a security cordon around a broken down Canadian vehicle in the Kandahar area. One occupant was killed and the other was wounded. No weapons or bombs were found. March 4, 2007 – Approximately 16 civilians were killed and dozens were wounded by US marine gunfire on the road between Jalalabad and Pakistan after a bomb blast directed the marine convoy in what has become known as the Shinwar shooting. In a March 14, 2007 article, the Afghan human rights commission alleged Marines put the number of victims at 12 people—including a 4-year-old girl, a 1-year-old boy and three elderly villagers and stated the Marines used excessive force, as they shot at people as they fled the scene of the bomb, even miles from the incident location. This report on killings of civilians in the Nangarhar Province is consistent with U.S. findings. The Marine commander and NCO were shipped back to the United States after this incident. Reports of killing of children and indiscriminate firing by the Marines were found to be untrue and all that were killed were found to be insurgents attacking the convoy. March 5, 2007 – Nine civilians, including five women and two to three children were killed when their home was destroyed by two bombs in the Nijrab district, in the Kapisa province, north of Kabul. The troops were responding to an attack that hit a Nato provincial reconstruction team. March 16, 2007 – Five Afghan policemen were killed by US troops at a checkpoint in a village near Gereshk, in Helmand Province. In later reports, the US denied its troops had been involved in the killings. April 29, 2007 – A number of Afghan civilians in Zerkoh Valley were killed in airstrikes conducted in support of US Special Operations Forces. Estimates of the dead vary, with the Afghan government claiming 42 killed, with no sign of Taliban forces. Initial Coalition media reports stated that 87 Taliban were killed with no reports of civilian casualties. Human Rights Watch reported the civilian dead as at least 25. April 29,