ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - U.S. bombing over the past two days killed at least 15 people in eastern Afghanistan where an apparently mistaken bombing killed 65 people earlier this month, an Afghan news service said Sunday.
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted travelers arriving at the Pakistani border town of Miranshah as saying the bombing Friday night and Saturday morning hit Sheikhan village, west of the Paktia province capital Gardez.
Most of the 15 people killed were women and children, AIP said, quoting witnesses. Three houses were totally destroyed.
The latest bombing report came after calls by Afghanistan's new interim government that the United States stop its nearly three-month bombing campaign aimed at flushing out Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and fighters of his al Qaeda network.
Defense Minister General Mohammad Fahim has said the U.S. should end the bombing soon, as Osama bin Laden had probably left Afghanistan and al Qaeda was a spent force.
But a spokesman for the U.S. mission in Kabul said Washington had received no official request to stop the bombing.
Abdullah Abdullah, foreign minister in the interim government, said Sunday that bin Laden was probably still in Afghanistan.
President Bush promised in a weekly radio address from his ranch in Texas that there would be no let-up in the war against terrorism.
U.S. bombs have been blamed for killing hundreds of civilians.