A US-led coalition air attack killed seven Afghan civilians today in the eastern province of Kunar, provincial officials said.
The pre-dawn attack hit a house in the Shegal district, to the east of the provincial capital Asadabad, where village elders had gathered to settle a dispute, said officials.
"Seven people, several of them village elders, were killed in the bombing and the coalition also made some arrests," one official said.
A spokesman for the coalition in Kabul said he did not know of the incident and was checking.
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Kunar is near the border with Pakistan and the Taliban and their Islamic allies, including members of the al-Qaeda network, have been active there since US-led forces overthrew the Taliban in 2001.