"Nine Afghan civilians have been killed in a bombing raid in Kapisa province, Afghan officials say."

"But later a US military statement said US-led forces had "dropped two 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs" during an air strike in Kapisa after a Nato base had come under attack.

"A US spokesman, Lt Col David Accetta, said the Nato base had come under rocket attack and that "two men with AK-47s" were seen leaving the scene of the rocket attack and entering a compound," the Associated Press news agency reports.

"These men knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area while conducting attacks against coalition forces."

"Local people say that the coalition forces then bombed a mud-brick home, killing nine members of the same extended family."

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