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US Afghan raid 'killed civilians'
The US military had said at the time of the incident that only fighters were killed.
Last Modified: 11 Jul 2008 11:42 GMT

An official Afghan investigation team on Friday said US-led air strikes a week ago struck a wedding, killing 47 civilians.

There has been no comment yet from the US military.

At the time of the incident on Sunday, it said the strikes over the mountains eastern Nangarhar province killed only fighters.

"We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the air strikes and another nine were wounded," Burhanullah Shinwari, the deputy speaker of Afghanistan's senate, said.

A nine-member team appointed by Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, to investigate the strikes in the remote Deh Bala district. Shinwari led the team.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday that 250 civilians were killed or wounded in attacks in the past five days.

This figure includes the US-led air strikes and a suicide blast outside the Indian embassy in the capital on Monday that killed more than 40 people, including two Indian diplomats.

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