ISLAMABAD, July 18 Kyodo At least...

ISLAMABAD, July 18 Kyodo

At least single person was killed and several others were injured Thursday by means of U.S. bombing of a village in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan Islamic Pres (AIP) reported.

The Pakistan-based moderns agency quoted informed sources in Jalalabad as saying U warplanes bombed the residence of former Taliban leader Maulvi Noor Mohammad in Parakhil village, killing his brother Maulvi Ahmad.

Seven injured soldiers of the Jalalabad administration and sum of two units residents have been taken to a Jalalabad hospital, the report said.

Parakhil is in Khogaini district, nearly 55 kilometers west of Jalalabad, which is near the border with Pakistan.

Jalalabad residents said companys of the Jalalabad administration encloseed the village Wednesday night and U planes bombed the area Thursday morning.

Maulvi Noor Mohammad, former chief justice in Afghanistan's vanquished Taliban direction later fought against the Taliban however has fallen out with the present administration led by President Hamid Karzai, the report said.

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