KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan army commander said that U.S. and Afghan troops were fired on first from a village where a government investigative commission says nearly 100 civilians were killed, according to a report released Sunday.

Shots were fired early Aug. 22 from Azizabad at U.S. and Afghan troops, which had gone to the village on a raid, the chief of staff for the army’s Herat corps told the commission.

The report did not specify who fired the shots.

“When the ANA (Afghan army) and coalition troops got close to the village, firing started after the ANA unit stopped, and the coalition forces conducted the operation in the village,” the report said.

There were no “foreign or internal Taliban” among the victims, the report said.

The commission found that 15 men, 15 women and 60 children were killed. That finding was backed by a preliminary U.N. report. The commission said eight houses were destroyed and seven damaged.

The U.S.-led coalition maintains that 25 militants and five civilians died. The U.S. says it is investigating.

The top NATO spokesman in Afghanistan, Brig. Gen. Richard Blanchette, said Saturday that the U.S.-led coalition, Afghan government and U.N. would launch a probe into the raid.

The U.N. mission said it had delivered aid to around 900 people affected by what it called “the recent tragedy” in Azizabad. It delivered three truck loads of food, cooking utensils, shelter materials and medicines to 150 families.

Ahmad Nader Nadery, the head of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, has said a villager named Reza, whose compound bore the brunt of the attack, had a private security company that worked for the U.S. military at nearby Shindand airport.

Villagers and officials have said the operation was based on faulty information provided by Reza’s rival, Nader Tawakal. Attempts to locate Tawakal have failed. Aziz Ahmad Nadem, a member of parliament from Herat, said that Tawakal is now being protected by the U.S. military.