Officials: 8 women killed in NATO airstrike

Afghan officials said a NATO airstrike killed eight women and girls who were out gathering firewood before dawn Sunday in a remote region on the east of the country.
The coalition said it believes only insurgents were hit, CBS News reported.
Villagers from Laghman province's Alingar district brought the bodies to the governor's office in the provincial capital, said Sarhadi Zewak, a spokesman for the provincial government.
"They were shouting 'Death to America!' They were condemning the attack," Zewak said.
Seven injured females were brought to area hospitals for treatment, some of them as young as 10 years old, said provincial health director Latif Qayumi.
NATO forces at first said that about 45 insurgents and no civilians were killed in the attack, but spokesman Jamie Graybeal stressed later that they took the charge of civilian deaths seriously and were investigating the allegations.