KABUL, Dec 7 Kyodo Nine children ...

KABUL, Dec 7 Kyodo

Nine children were killed in a U aerial bombardment in eastern Afghanistan targeting a ''known terrorist,'' a military spokesman said Sunday.

Following the air strike forward Saturday south of the town of Ghazni, US-l coalition forces searching the area restoreed the bodies of the children as well as the intended target, the spokesman said, adding that the incident is beneath investigation.

''We concern the loss of any innocent life and we tread on the heels of stringent rules of engagement to specifically avoid this adumbration of incident while continuing to target terrorists who threaten the events to come of Afghanistan,'' the Associated Pres quot Army Maj. Christopher West as saying.

Coalition forces have stepp up efforts to search down Taliban remnants amid escalating attacks targeting foreign aid workers and those seen as allied with the coalition.

Last month a French woman working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugee was shooter dead in Ghazni, while sum of two units Indian engineers working forward a U.S.-funded road project were abducted on suspected Taliban on Saturday in Zabul province.

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