US warplanes bombarded a remote village in eastern Afghanistan and killed at least six people and injured nine, according to early estimates.
The air raid followed a rocket attack by militants on the mayor's office in Mano Gai, 105 miles east of the capital, Kabul. Police responded with small arms fire, said Mr Sayed Fazel Akbar, governor of Kunar province.
"Then the American planes came and bombarded Weradesh village, from where the
rockets had been launched," he said. "There are casualties there, but we don't know how many or if they are civilians or the enemy."
Mr Akbar declined to elaborate on who might have launched the attack. But the
area is considered a stronghold of militants loyal to renegade warlord Gulbuddin
Hekmatyar.
A local police blamed the pre-dawn attack on the mayor's office on Taliban and al-aeda fighters.
US forces man a small camp just a few miles at Nangalam that has come under repeated attack.
AP