Omkar Kandekar

A resident of Pakistan's Kurram district sent an NPR producer footage of the aftermath of the strike.

Elders were gathered around wooden coffins, some of them small.

They had placed them in front of a paramilitary headquarter to protest the deaths of the children, whose ages ranged from 17 to 6.

Pakistan's army had no immediate comment regarding that strike, but a spokesman for the military insisted his forces were not behind an earlier strike in Afghanistan that had killed nine children and a woman.

The strikes come amidst tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

They have been brewing as extremist groups loyal to the Taliban have been conducting militant attacks inside Pakistan.

Omkar Khandekar, NPR News, Mumbai.