KABUL, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the deadly air strike that left over 100 people dead and injured early Friday, according to a press release issued Saturday by the government.

    President Hamid Karzai has assigned a fact fining mission consisted of officials from Interior Ministry, National Security Directorate and other concerned bodies to thoroughly investigate the Kunduz incident and report to presidency at its earliest," the press release said.

    In the bloody incident occurred on Friday, according to local officials, nearly one hundred people, mostly civilians, had been killed when the militants hijacked two oil tankers and distributed the object to locals.

    NATO's top commander to Afghanistan General Stanly McChrystal also announced to initiate probe in the case.

    Meantime, Taliban outfit in a statement rejected the claim of inflicting casualties on its fighters and described all the victims as non-combatants, but the claim has been dismissed by local officials.

    NATO chief says alliance probing Afghan airstrike

    BRUSSELS, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday that an investigation is going on to see whether civilians were killed in an NATO airstrike on two fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan overnight.

    "There was an ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) airstrike against the Taliban during the night. Certainly, a number of Taliban were killed. There is also the possibility of civilian casualties as well. But it is not yet clear," Rasmussen told reporters in Brussels.  Full story

    93 people killed in NATO airstrike in N Afghanistan: officials

    KABUL, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A NATO air strike Friday killed 93 people, some of them civilians, in Kunduz province of northern Afghanistan, said the provincial governor Mohammad Omar.

An injured person is carried into the main hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan , Sep.4, 2009. A NATO air strike Friday killed 93 people, some of them civilians, in Kunduz province, said the provincial governor Mohammad Omar.  (Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    It occurred at around 1:45 a.m. when Taliban militants hijacked two fuel trucks and wanted to take them to a far-flung area in Aliabad district, police chief of the district, Bariali Basharyar told Xinhua. Full story