Probe into claims of civilian deaths

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A wounded woman gets treatment at a hospital after the air strikes on Sunday, September 16.

• NEW: NATO backs away from an earlier denial that civilians were killed
• An Afghan officials says the victims were women gathering wood at night
• ISAF has been working for years to tackle civilian casualties

(CNN) -- NATO is investigating allegations that civilians died in a coalition airstrike in eastern Afghanistan.

Afghan officials said seven women were killed and seven more wounded in a coalition airstrike Sunday morning in Laghman province.

The alliance's International Security Assistance Force said it is aware of the incident and the allegations.

"ISAF takes all allegations of civilian casualties seriously and we are investigating this allegation," ISAF said. "Protecting Afghan lives is the cornerstone of our mission and it saddens us when we learn that our action might have unintentionally harmed civilians."

Afghan official Abdul Khaliq Husaine said women normally go out to collect wood in the night, and that they came under attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The incident took place in the province's Alingar district. Sarhadi Zwak, a provincial spokesman, also said civilians had been killed in an airstrike in the area, but did not have exact numbers

Earlier, ISAF said it had been targeting "a large group of insurgents" in the province, east of the capital Kabul.

It identified the group of about 45 as hostile, and attacked with "precision munitions and direct fire," said spokesman James Graybeal.

The strikes "killed a large number of the insurgents and forced the group to depart," he said.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahed said the strike killed more than 20 civilians, and condemned the attack. The Taliban frequently exaggerates death tolls.

Civilian casualties in the war between coalition forces and militants have generated grass-roots anger toward the combatants, and ISAF has been working for years to tackle the problem

CNN's Ab Qadir Sediqi and Jessica King contributed to this report.

16 Sep, 2012

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Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/16/world/asia/afghanistan-civilian-casualties/index.html?eref=edition
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