A NATO strike killed at least 15 Afghan civilians, including women and children, in the province of Logar, south of Kabul.

A NATO strike killed at least 15 Afghan civilians, including women and children, in the province of Logar, south of Kabul.

Deputy  provincial police chief Rais Khan Sadeq Abdulrahimzai told AFP: "18 civilians including women and children are dead," adding that seven Taliban militants were also killed.

Provincial government spokesman Din Mohammad Darvish also confirmed the attack, saying: "around 15 civilians are dead" after the attack in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

But NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) claimed "multiple insurgents" were killed in the airstrike.

An AFP correspondent said he saw at least 15 bodies that had been loaded into five vehicles and driven by villagers to the provincial capital of Pol-i-Alam.

He said he saw four children among the bodies, one as young as a year old and the oldest about 10 years old.