KABUL (AFP) - The US-led coalition in Afghanistan admitted Wednesday, 16th July to killing eight civilians during an air strike against militants, as an Afghan official said nine women and a boy had died.
" A coalition convoy returned fire and called for close air support on the enemy positions. A house was hit; eight civilians were killed, two others injured," the US Army said.
The deputy provincial governor Mohammad Younus Rasouli told AFP that a civilian house had been struck in the raid.
"Information from the area is that 12 civilians have been killed: nine women, two men and a boy," he said.
The coalition and separate NATO-led International Security Assistance Force are also investigating official Afghan reports that 64 civilians were killed in two strikes in northeastern Afghanistan early this month.
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