US 'killed 47 Afghan civilians'

by Sanjay Jha | July 11, 2008 at 02:29 am

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US has intensified the air strike in Afghanistan but it is affecting innocent people and that can back fire against them.

A US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, the head of a government investigating team says.

Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. The US military said they were militants.

But local people said the dead were wedding party guests.

President Hamid Karzai set up a nine-man investigative commission, headed by the senate's deputy speaker.