Seven children were killed in a US-led coalition air strike against a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition has said.A statement said that a number of militants were also killed in the raid in Paktika province near Pakistan.
The children are believed to have been students at a madrassa, or Islamic school, at the targeted compound.
In the south, three coalition soldiers and their Afghan interpreter died in a bomb blast, the US military said.
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