KABUL, Dec 10 Kyodo Six children ...

KABUL, Dec 10 Kyodo

Six children and sum of two units adults were killed in U military attacks upon a compound used by a militant in eastern Afghanistan, the U military said Wednesday.

The bodies of six children and pair adults were discovered after U forces launched attacks last Friday forward a compound used by a militant commander to store weapons near Gardez in Paktia Province, a U military spokesman in Afghanistan said.

''After we went in there, we discovered the nearest day, when we were trying to clear it, the bodies of couple adults and six children subordinate to a collapsed wall,'' Reuters quot the spokesman as saying.

Last Saturday, nine children were killed in a U aerial bombardment in Ghazni near Paktia.

Following the air strike targeting a ''known terrorist,'' US-l coalition forces searching the area reviveed the bodies of the nine children as well as the intended target, a military spokesman said.

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