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3 US soldiers killed by man in Afghan army uniform |
A total of three US soldiers were killed by a man in Afghan military uniform on Friday morning, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan
said in a statement. "Three U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) service members
died following an attack by an individual wearing an Afghan uniform in southwest
Afghanistan today," said the statement. The brief statement did not disclose the
name of the killed soldiers, only saying "it is USFOR-A policy to defer casualty
identification procedures to the U.S. Department of Defense." Meantime, an Afghan
official said that the incident took place in a joint Afghan-coalition checkpost
in Bostanzoi area in Sangin district of the southern Helmand province at around
2 a.m. local time Friday. According to coalition officials, southern Helmand belongs
to coalition's Regional Command Southwest. The Friday's attack is the latest in
the so-called "green-on- blue" attacks when members of Afghan army or police turned
their weapons against coalition forces. Earlier Friday, administrative chief of
Sangin district, Mohammad Sharif, told Xinhua that a police officer shot dead
four Afghan Special Force members. However, later he said that the police officer
shot and killed three cops with the coalition forces. "The attacker escaped the
area shortly after the shooting and a joint investigation was launched into the
incident," he said. Up to 20 such attacks took place since Jan. 1 this year, leaving
more than two dozen U.S. and NATO soldiers dead and several others injured. Two
Afghan army soldiers opened fire on coalition soldiers in Shwak district of eastern
Paktia province, killing a U.S. soldier and injuring four other U.S. soldiers
on Tuesday.
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