Afghan officials are reporting the death of seven civilians in a mosque explosion early Sunday morning in the Sayad Abad District of the Wardak province of Afghanistan.

The explosion took place shortly after four insurgents wearing suicide vests were killed as they attacked Afghan and ISAF troops in an early morning from inside a mosque at that location. The International Security Assistance Forces and Afghan forces conducted a night-time raid in the area Sunday morning.

The Taliban, as well as the Wardak police said that the civilians were killed as a result of an air attack by the forces, but the coalition said that no aircraft were used during the raid. ISAF asserts that the explosion occurred after the coalition forces had left the area.

An ISAF Spokesman said this morning that the joint force was fired on early this morning from a building that was believed to be a mosque. He reported that soldiers returned fire and killed the four attackers.

“If that (civilian deaths) occurred, those civilians died somehow after the forces left the area,” he said.

But, a Taliban spokesman says otherwise in a statement e-mailed to the media. The spokesman said that “American Forces” used two airstrikes in an attack on the mosque.

Other Afghan officials are saying that the civilians were killed by a blast as they were retrieving the bodies of the dead Taliban attackers after the raid and the forces had left the area.