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AFP, Asadabad

US-led coalition war planes trying to target insurgents killed 14 Afghan road workers in an air strike in northwestern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said Wednesday.

Another official said up to 25 of the men were killed in the bombing late Tuesday in an area of the rugged Nuristan province about 180 kilometres (112 miles) northeast of Kabul.

"We had reports that rebels were there," Nuristan governor Tamimi Nuristani told AFP.

"There was an airstrike by coalition forces but later we found out that 12 people, all local road workers, were killed. The road workers were in a tent which was hit by one bomb. All died," he said.