KABUL, December 30, SPA -- The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths of 10 people in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians _ including schoolchildren _ were killed in an attack involving foreign troops, disputing NATO reports that the dead were insurgents. Asadullah Wafa, a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, told The Associated Press by telephone that eight schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 14 were among the dead discovered in a village house in the Narang district of Kunar province. A NATO official has said initial reports from troops involved in the fighting on Sunday indicated that those killed were insurgents _ all young males. Wafa said that he was convinced that all those killed in the Kunar incident were innocent civilians. «I have talked to the principal of the school in the village and he gave us details about the killed children,» Wafa said. The bodies had already been buried by the time Wafa"s team arrived. A joint Afghan-NATO investigation will continue to investigate what happened.--SPA 14:24 LOCAL TIME 11:24 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/733198