KABUL, Aug 31: Eight Afghan villagers were killed and an Afghan aid worker was injured when planes of the US-led coalition bombed a north eastern village after a firefight with militants late on Monday, a Danish aid group said on Tuesday.

Our staff said "there were eight dead villagers," Gorm Pedersen, director of the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees, told AFP.

Mr Pedersen said the eight villagers at Waradesh in Pech district in Kunar province were killed in the US bombardment, which was ordered after fighting between Afghan government forces and militants in the district.

"There was no fighting in the village," he said. Danish staff operating a water pipeline project said their supply compound was also bombed and an aid worker injured. The US military in a statement confirmed there was an air strike in Kunar late on Monday. -AFP