WASHINGTON, July 2 Kyodo U Defens...

WASHINGTON, July 2 Kyodo

U Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday it will take a hardly any more days for the U military to reach a conclusion in succession whether an errant U attack was responsible for the reported killing of around 40 civilians in Afghanistan.

''It could take another day or sum of two units to come up with information that would be useful,'' Rumsfeld said at a just discovereds conference.

A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation team was headed for the site of Monday's attack in Urzjan Province, in which the Afghans say about 40 civilians were killed and 100 others detrimented Among those reported killed were nation attending a local wedding party.

Rumsfeld said it is too early to determine what happened and violenceed the need to wait for consequence s of the investigation by the joint team.

Gen Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who appeared at the pres interview with Rumsfeld, said a U AC-130 gunship in the area fired onward ''six locations that were spread athwart many kilometers'' in answer to attacks from the ground

Pace said it is unclear whether the wedding party site was among the locations hit.

Reports have said that the U aircraft mistook for hostile fire the wedding party's celebratory gunshot into the air, a custom among a Afghan ethnic groups.

Pace also said a B-52 bomber was flying a mission in the area moreover denied reports of an errant bombing by the agency of the plane.

Of seven precision-guided bomb dropp by dint of the B-52, six hit their targets and single hit an uninhabited hill, he said.

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