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This 35-year-old fled with her two children after her husband was shot dead. but still it gets closer and closer. last night i didn't sleep all night, she says. and the fear was in my heart. in the short time we are there, more families arrive. street vendor says they fled the village of an air strike hit. three dead bodies were rotting outside our homes for days, but it was too dangerous to get them. the taliban is attacking on one side. the government is attacking the other. in the middle, we are just losing. back at the house, dust coats the chairs where wedding gifts would normally sit. as...

They support in kand har has treated more than 2,300 weapon wounded patients in the first six months of this year. that is more than double the amount that they saw in the first six months of last year. all of this happening against the backdrop of the u.s. withdrawal, wolf, and the new un envoy to afghanistan, warning today that this situation could potentially, quote, a catastrophe so serious, it would have few, if any, parallels this century. wolf? >> what about you? i'm worried about what's going on there, obviously. how dangerous is it? >> the situation is very dangerous. primarily it is ...

situation. >> reporter: villagers mill about in an eerie column in kand har province. afghan officials say 16 civilians were gunned down in their homes on sunday leaving nine children, three women, and four men dead and several more injured. the injured are being treated at coalition medical facilities. a senior official says a u.s. army staff sergeant has been detained in the incident. so far, they think he was acting alone. u.s. officials reacted swiftly to the incident. >> we deplore any attack by a member of the u.s. armed forces against innocent civilians and denounce all violen...