Reports from Afghanistan say the United States air force has mistakenly bombed a village wedding party, killing many of the guests.A witness from the village, in Uruzgan province, told the BBC the overnight raid left scores of people - many of them women - dead.

Afghan officials in the capital, Kabul, put the death toll at at least 30, although other reports say the figure is much higher.

" At least one bomb was errant, we don't know where it fell " US military spokesman.

" There are no Taleban or al-Qaeda or Arabs here - these people were all civilians, women and children " Villager Abdul Saboor

Targeting errors US forces operating in Afghanistan have made a number of errors during the campaign against the Taleban and al-Qaeda forces.



· Four Canadian soldiers were killed in April when a US fighter bombed them by mistake during a training exercise.
· In January, US bombs killed civilians in the village of Hazar Qadam, targeted as a Taleban compound.
· In December, planes bombed a convoy from the eastern town of Khost, killing people Mr Karzai said were tribal elders travelling for his inauguration.
· Last October, a targeting error led to a bomb hitting a residential area of Kabul, instead of a helicopter at the airport.

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