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Nato air strikes in eastern Afghanistan kill Taliban | Nato air strikes in eastern Afghanistan kill Taliban |
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More than two dozen suspected Taliban militants have been killed in an air strike carried out by Nato in eastern Afghanistan, the alliance has said. | |
Nato carried out the strike in the Chapa Dara district of Kunar province, on the border with Pakistan. | |
Senior officials in Kunar told the BBC the militants arrived in "dozens of vehicles" to burn houses of villagers and "possibly execute people". | |
The area is regularly shelled from the Pakistani side. | |
Pakistanis and Afghans accuse each other of failing to act against militant attacks inside each other's territory. | |
Earlier reports of the Kunar air strike gave conflict accounts of the numbers killed. | |
Local officials said 46 suspected Taliban members had died. | |
Taliban leaders, however, said 13 had been killed and 10 wounded. | |
There were no reports of civilian casualties. | |
District police chief Najibullah Gujar told AFP news agency the militants had gathered to publicly execute a man accused of killing another man from a rival family. | District police chief Najibullah Gujar told AFP news agency the militants had gathered to publicly execute a man accused of killing another man from a rival family. |