"The fightings go on between the Taleban and afghan and Nato forces in Babaji, Loi Manda, Yakh Chal, Upasciak and other tiny villages, all few chilometres north of here, up the Helmand river", tells Luca De Simeis, logistician in Lashkar-Gah Emergency hospital. "All night long we heard the thunder of the jets flying low, continuously, the take-offs and landings of the big Chinook helicopters in the close-by British base. Fightings and air bombings in the Grishk area have stopped around mid-day after they had continued for the whole morning, preventing Emergency first aid staff from collecting the injured in the hit villages. Only in the afternoon the staff could accomplish their task".

Thirty civilians admitted in the hospital since last morning. "Today - says De Simeis - we have received about ten people injured, all casualties of cross-fire, all coming from Babaji. These injured add up to the 20 admitted yesterday. All of them are civilians, males and females, aged between 12 and 80. Many of them are in very serious conditions. Many didn't survive despite immediate care, some were already dead, four in total, among them a one-year-old child, hit in the head by a bullet. But the people killed during these two days of fightings and shelling are many more, especially afhgan soldiers in the Grishk front, who are transferred directly to the british base. This morning, the head nurse of the hospital told me that the three afghan soldiers we had admitted, one of whom died later, had been taken here by a military van inside which there were seven more corpses of afghan soldiers".
"I want to point out that our doctors, our nurses, all our afghan and international staff have been working for days in a very difficult conditions, with heavy shifts, without any problem, any quarrel: they're really admirable". 

War accidents in Kabul and in the outskirts. While in Helmand, due to the good season, the war rages, in Kabul and in the outskirts the situations is getting tense more and more. At the expense of the civilians, as usual. Late last night, here in town, Nato soldiers shot against a civilian car, killing a 12-year-old boy. Such tragedy, the umpteenth of this kind, occurred on the Jalalabad Road, also known as 'the road of the kamikaze'. It's here that the most part of the attacks take place. Like the one against the Us embassy convoy occurred sunday morning. For this reason, Isaf military who patrol this road are very nervous and trigger happy. It seems that last night they opened fire only because a car was running too close to the convoy. A short time earlier, another afghan child had been killed, run over by a Nato armoured vehicle convoy that was running at topo speed through the center of Pul-i-Alama, the capital of Logar province, south of Kabul. Isaf command said they are 'very sorry' and apologised to the family. But this was not enough to appease the resentment of the afghan people towards Nato troops. A resentment that increases day by day the popular support to the Taleban guerrilla.