A US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, the head of a government investigating team says.
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The US military said they were militants.
But local people said the dead were wedding party guests.
President Hamid Karzai set up a nine-man investigation commission, headed by the senate's deputy speaker.
(BBC)
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