Kabul, April 06, 2010, SPA -- NATO said Tuesday that its forces killed four civilians, including two women and a child, in an air strike in southern Afghanistan. Four suspected insurgents were also killed in the air strike on Monday in Nahr-e-Sarraj district of the southern province of Helmand, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement quoted by the German Press Agency "DPA". "Insurgents were using the compound as a firing position when combined forces, unaware of the possible presence of civilians, directed air assets against it," it said. "Later, once they were able to enter the compound, combined forces found four dead civilians - two women, an elderly man and a child - inside," the statement said. A joint "incident assessment" by Afghan and ISAF forces was underway, it added. --SPA 13:17 LOCAL TIME 10:17 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/766593