Karzai slams Afghan deaths after raid on U.S. force

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Karzai slams Afghan deaths after raid on U.S. force

KABUL, March 5 (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned U.S. troops for shooting dead 10 civilians at the weekend as officials said nine more -- five women, four children and an old man -- had been killed in an air strike.

The nine were killed on Sunday in Kapisa province, barely 90 minutes' drive northeast of the capital Kabul, the deputy provincial governor, Sayed Dawood Hashimi, said on Monday. That strike followed a rocket attack on a U.S. base.

Both NATO and the U.S.-led coalition force which also operates in the area said they were investigating.

U.S. marines shot dead 10 civilians in the east on Sunday, in what the U.S. military said was a "complex" Taliban ambush involving a suicide bombing and gunfire in a populated area outside the city of Jalalabad, near Pakistan.