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Taliban leader accuses Prince Harry of killing innocent Afghans

Britain's Prince Harry reveals in his memoir "Spare" that he killed 25 people while serving in Afghanistan. [File: John Stillwell/Pool Reuters]

The Taliban administration has denounced Britain’s Prince Harry for his admission of killing 25 people while on military duty in Afghanistan, and a senior Afghan official has accused the royal of killing innocent civilians.

“We checked and found that the days on which Prince Harry is mentioning the killing of 25 mujaheddin, we did not have any casualties in Helmand,” Taliban leader Anas Haqqani told Al Jazeera on Friday. “It is clear that civilians and ordinary people were targeted.”

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