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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition troops killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan because of mistaken intelligence reports, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The coalition said it was looking into the incident in Nuristan province, but did not immediately comment.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force said it has conducted airstrikes against Taliban fighters in the area, but it did not say when.

"ISAF was engaged in Nurgaram and Du Ab (districts), and in those places we used airstrikes against (Taliban)," ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco told a news conference. "The situation is not clear at all at this stage. We are carrying out the investigation and trying to get a clear picture."

The engineers and laborers had been contracted by the U.S. military to build a road in mountainous Nuristan.

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