The US-led NATO occupation force is being accused of another mass killing of civilians in Afghanistan. Local officials in the town of Lashkar Gah say between twenty-five to thirty people were killed in a NATO air strike on Thursday. The attack came one day after NATO commanders said they would implement a new policy for reducing air attacks to avoid civilian casualties. Residents said at least eighteen bodies were pulled from the rubble, with another twelve said to still be buried underneath. A BBC correspondent reported seeing eighteen bodies, ranging from six months to fifteen years old. NATO has confirmed a strike took place but isn’t acknowledging causing casualties. It took nearly two months for the Pentagon to acknowledge a mass killing of Afghan civilians in an air strike in August, and even then the US has acknowledged killing thirty civilians while residents claim it was around ninety.