Up to 40 people have reportedly been killed in a US bombing raid on Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported that the house of a Taliban commander was one of those destroyed in the village of Naka. Witnesses said he was not in the house at the time and was unharmed.
The source in the Waziristan tribal agency on the border with Paktika said 40 people were killed, up to 60 wounded and 25 houses destroyed in the raid.
AIP put the death toll at 25 with four wounded and quoted witnesses as saying the bombing was so severe that it was difficult to identify some of the dead.
The villagers said they did not understand why they had been bombed, saying that no members of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda militant network were in the area.
The report of the attack comes a week after US planes hit a convoy that Washington insists was carrying al Qaeda leaders and their Taliban protectors in Paktia province.
Local residents and survivors said the convoy was en route to the inauguration of the new interim government of Hamid Karzai at the weekend in Kabul when it came under attack. About 65 people were killed.