The demonstrators said that six civilians were killed after Nato troops conducted a night raid in Torawaray area in Matoon village in Khost.
Confirming the death of civilians, a spokesperson for provincial government Mubarez Zadran said that six civilians were killed in an overnight Nato operation in Torawaray.
The dead in the raid included four men and two children and two others were left wounded, he added.
The protesters were carrying the dead bodies and chanting anti-government and anti-US slogans.
Demonstrators claimed that Nato troops opened fire, killed six civilians and injured two others in Matoon village early this morning.
A Nato spokesman Capt. Justin Brockhoff said that a Nato-Afghan force killed insurgents in an operation in Khost province, but declined to point out to the number of insurgents.
The recent civilian deaths take place as President Hamid Karzai has frequently called on foreign troops to put the brakes on raids that cause civilian casualties, otherwise the troops would be seen as occupying forces.
The United Nations in its latest report on civilian deaths expressed over spiraling casualties in Afghanistan and reported a 15 percent rise in civilian deaths in the first half of the year.
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