U.S. drone strike kills 30 pine nut farm workers in Afghanistan

The U.S. drone strike was intended to hit an Islamic State hideout in Afghanistan. But instead it killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day's labor in the fields. The attack Wednesday (September 18) night also injured another 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers. They'd just finished collecting pine nuts in eastern Afghanistan. A tribal elder said the workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them. A senior U.S official in Kabul confi