Kunduz, Afghanistan  - A district governor in northern Afghanistan said Monday that 130 people were killed in a NATO airstrike last week that struck two Taliban-hijacked fuel trucks.

Friday's airstrike conducted by US planes was ordered by a German military commander when a large crowd of people was observed through satellite images gathering around the two trucks stuck in a riverbed in the Chardarah district in Kunduz province.

"According to interviews that we did with local people and tribal elders, 107 people were killed in Omerkhel and Gul Bagh villages of the province," Abdul Wahid Omarkhel, the Chardarah district governor, told the German Press Agency dpa.

He said 15 other people, who had come from neighbouring Baghlan province, were also killed in the blast. More than a dozen people were also killed from the Ali Abad district, according to information Omarkhel said he had received from that district.

He could not say how many of the victims were civilians, but said a large number of children, aged 10 to 16, were among those killed.

The district governor said authorities also had compiled a list of 27 people injured in the airstrike.

OmerKhel said he submitted the list to an envoy of President Hamid Karzai who had come to the province for an investigation of the strike.

A member of the central government's investigative team confirmed to dpa that they were verifying the lists that they received from Chardarah and Ali Abad districts.

On Sunday during a meeting with local villagers, government investigators promised to assist all affected families, including the families of local Taliban militants, who were killed or injured in the incident. (dpa)