US troops and Afghan police killed three militants in an overnight raid on a compound housing people with al-Qaeda links in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said on Wednesday.
People who were in the compound said the dead were civilians and that none of them had fired on the troops, according to a spokesman for the governor's office of Khost province.
Witnesses told the governor's office spokesman that the US troops opened fire on the compound.
A US military spokesman said the three people killed, one of them a woman, had been specifically targeted as "known individuals with al-Qaeda links."
He said two of them fired directly on the troops and another attempted to fire.
The aim of the raid had been to capture the targeted people, the US military spokesman said.
The incident occurred in Khost city, the province capital.
At least one other woman was wounded and taken to a coalition medical facility.
APTN