Metro

February 18, 2014

Astonishing headcam footage has been released showing the moment a 500lb bomb was apparently dropped on a unit of US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan by mistake.

The American troops were reportedly engaged in combat with Taliban forces in the Paktika province when a simultaneous airstrike was called.

However, the operation went dramatically wrong when the bomb was dropped on a US army infantry outpost in error, according to military website funker350.

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