ICRC voices concern over civilian casualties in Afghanistan

The International Committee of the Red Cross has voiced its concern over the increasingly high numbers of the civilian casualties in Afghanistan. It said that life for ordinary Afghans has become untenable, with security seriously deteriorating due to a surge in Taliban attacks and accidental NATO strikes on civilians.

“The situation is getting worse for civilians, “says Jessica Barry, the ICRC spokesperson based in the Afghan capital Kabul.

She told Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane that the situation is “never very good and over recent years civilians have always really been caught in the middle of the fighting.”

On Tuesday two bombings killed a local legislator and a school principal, the latest of a series of attacks. Listen to full interview here