The bodies of several men and a child who witnesses said were killed by a United States Army sergeant in southern Afghanistan.Credit...Allauddin Khan/Associated Press PANJWAI, Afghanistan — Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave
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