Nato apologises for killing seven Afghan children, aged six to 14, who were sitting around campfire in the snow

Nato has voiced regret for the killing of eight civilians in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan last week.

The coalition dropped two bombs on February 8 in Najrab district in Kapisa province, after movements by eight people on the ground were assessed as a threat to Afghan police and Nato forces in the area.

Air Commodore Mike Wigston, the director of Nato air operations, said today that the international forces believed they were 'young teenagers' who were armed.

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