The Presidential Palace said on Tuesday afternoon President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a task team to probe Monday’s airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi amid conflicting reports of who the casualties were. 

“To illustrate the nature of the harm sustained to civilians in the incident, President Ghani has assigned a commission” to carry out a “broad-based investigation and report back about findings of their investigation to the national security council within a week,” read the statement. 

Amid conflicting reports of Monday’s airstrike in Dasht-e-Archi in Kunduz by the Afghan Air Force (AAF), Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah on Tuesday said the target had been a Taliban center.

Abdullah said although the AAF targeted Taliban in the district, a number of civilians, including children, had been killed in the airstrike.