By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:05 EST, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 10:45 EST, 8 April 2013 A Nato airstrike killed at least 11 children yesterday during an operation targeting Taliban commanders. At least one woman also died in the strike and more than six others were injured in the strike on a village in Shigal district in Kunar province, on the Pakistani border. Six insurgents, including two senior Taliban leaders, were killed in the attack, the Interior Ministry said. Scroll down for video The woman and children died in the Nato air strike in Afghanistan's Kunar province (file picture)
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Local officials said the strike hit houses in the Kunar province, Afghanistan
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Said the woman and children died when their homes collapsed on them
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Six insurgents, including two senior Taliban leaders, died in the strike
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International Security Assistance Force said it is assessing incident
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