Kabul, June 20 (RHC)-- At least eight people have been killed in a drone strike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz.  Local officials said the attack was conducted in the Archi district of the province, located some 250 kilometers north of the country’s capital, Kabul.

Reports say that the dead were all members of the Taliban militant group, but the Taliban has made no comments on the fatal airstrike so far.

The incident came one day after 17 people were killed in a drone strike carried out by U.S.-led foreign forces in Dih Bala district of the same province.  Local Afghan officials said that those killed in the aerial attack were also terrorists, but there was no way to confirm the report.

The CIA spy agency regularly uses drones for airstrikes and spying missions in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border.  Washington has also been conducting targeted killings through remotely-controlled armed drones in Somalia and Yemen.