KABUL, Nov 7: The Taliban said on Wednesday that another 37 civilian had been killed during US bombing raids in Afghanistan.

The head of the Taliban’s Bakhter news agency, Abdul Henan Hemat, said 20 people had been killed in the villages of Qazi, Sarghich and Khoshab, north of Kabul, over the past two days, according to people who had fled bombing raids.

Hemat said that in Afsaran, a village on the road from Kabul to Bagram, about 50 kilometres north of the capital, five people were killed and 12 injured in US bombing.

The official claimed that shortly after dropping food supplies in the western province of Herat on Tuesday, US planes bombed the region killing seven people and injuring 12.

Five people were killed and up to 10 injured when bombs struck Sorkhrod village, 10 kilometers (six miles) from the eastern city of Jalalabad.

The Taliban claim more than 1,500 Afghan civilians have fallen victim to US bombing raids since the airstrikes began on Oct 7. —AFP