LASHKAR GHAR: An Afghan police commander and several of his men killed three US soldiers in the southern province of Helmand, turning guns on them after inviting them to a dinner to discuss security, Afghan officials said on Friday.
The men were all American Special Forces members and were killed on Thursday night while attending a meeting in the Sarwan Qala area, in what appeared to be a planned attack by rogue Afghan forces.
“During dinner, the police commander and his colleagues shot them and then fled. The commander was a member of Afghan National Police, in charge of local police in Sangin district,” a senior Afghan official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “It looks like he had drawn up a plan to kill them previously,” the official said.
A spokeswoman for the NATO-led forces in the country confirmed the incident but said it was too early to say whether it was a rogue shooting or due to insurgent infiltration.
“All we know is that they were killed by an Afghan in a uniform of some sort,” the spokeswoman said.
So-called green on blue shootings, in which Afghan police or soldiers turn their guns on their western colleagues, have seriously eroded trust between the allies as NATO combat soldiers prepare to hand over to Afghan forces by 2014, after which most foreign forces will leave the country.
According to NATO, there have been 24 such attacks on foreign troops since January in which 28 people have been killed, not including Thursday’s attack. Last year, there were 21 attacks in which 35 people were killed.
Another foreign soldier was killed in the south on Friday during an insurgent attack, NATO said. In a grim 24-hours for the NATO-led force, three US soldiers and an American aid worker were killed earlier on Thursday in the eastern province of Kunar in an attack by a suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, six Afghan civilians were killed and another injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday, authorities said.
“Women and children were among the victims,” Helmand police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told AFP, adding that they had been travelling in the Musa Qala district of the restive province.
Roadside bombs are a favourite weapon of Taliban fighting government forces and their NATO backers, but often miss their targets and kill civilians.
The latest deaths come two days after a report by the United Nations said 1,145 civilians had been killed and 1,954 wounded in the war in the first six months of this year.
Another foreign soldier was killed in the south on Friday during an insurgent attack, NATO said. In a grim 24-hours for the NATO-led force, three US soldiers and an American aid worker were killed earlier on Thursday in the eastern province of Kunar in an attack by a suicide bomber.
Meanwhile, six Afghan civilians were killed and another injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday, authorities said.
“Women and children were among the victims,” Helmand police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told AFP, adding that they had been travelling in the Musa Qala district of the restive province.
Roadside bombs are a favourite weapon of Taliban fighting government forces and their NATO backers, but often miss their targets and kill civilians.
The latest deaths come two days after a report by the United Nations said 1,145 civilians had been killed and 1,954 wounded in the war in the first six months of this year.
The UN blamed 80 percent of the deaths on insurgents, saying more than half were caused by roadside bombs.
In another incident, a British soldier was killed while on patrol in southern Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence said on Friday.
The soldier’s death brought the number of British troops killed to 423 since operations in Afghanistan began in October 2001. Of these, at least 383 died as a result of hostile action.
Britain has around 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, making it the second-largest contributor to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force after the United States.
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