US offers to pay families for mistaken drone strike

The US government has offered compensation to the families of 10 people killed in error by a drone strike in Kabul.

The Pentagon said it was working with the State Department to help surviving family members relocate to the US after an aid worker and nine members of his family were killed by an American attack in August.

The drone assault came days before America withdrew amid mounting fears of terror attacks on Kabul Airport. At the time, the US said a car carrying IS-K militants had been destroyed by US Hellfire missile after being tracked for eight hours.

Zemerai Ahmadi, who had just pulled into the driveway of his family home died along with 9 members of his family, including seven children.

Weeks later, Marine General Frank Mckenzie, head of US Central Command, called the strike a “tragic mistake” and said innocent civilians had been killed.

Meanwhile, the so-called Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that killed 47 people.