Pakistanis bury 'US strike' dead

'Body parts scattered'

Pakistan's The News newspaper reported on Saturday that the strike in Mohammad Khel was carried out on the basis of information that Arab militants had been invited to a feast by pro-Taleban tribesmen following the end of Ramadan.

"We found body parts scattered all over the place in the ruins, someone's hand, someone's leg," Bakht Ali, a villager, told Reuters news agency.

An intelligence official based in the region said a woman and three children were among those killed, Reuters reported.

Pakistani army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas said initial reports indicated that 20 or more people had been killed.

He said there was speculation that many were foreign militants, but added that the army was still awaiting a detailed report.

"One has to establish how many foreigners, or whether they were militants, how many civilians," the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying.

Lt Nathan Perry, a spokesman for the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, said he had "no information to give" about the strike.