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'Hundreds Killed' After Mazar-e Sharif Takeover
Tuesday, November 13, 2001
(10:21 GMT)
By Alessio Vinci / The Cable News Network

Since the Friday takeover, Northern Alliance Gen. Rashid Dostum has said the people on the street welcomed him and the city has found a renewed sense of freedom.

TERMEZ, Uzbekistan -- CNN
Northern Alliance fighters have killed as many as 600 people since they seized the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif on Friday, Western officials in the Uzbek border town of Termez have told CNN.

CNN has not been able to independently confirm the deaths.

But Western officials who are in daily contact with people in the town say most of those killed are Pakistani and Kashmiri fighters.

Family members of Chechen fighters who have sided with Taliban forces have been also targeted, they say. About 100 men are thought to be in custody.

As the alliance continues to gain wide swathes of territory in northern Afghanistan, Western officials are concerned that the anti-Taliban opposition and their sympathizers will commit revenge killings.
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