| Man in Afghan army uniform shoots at Nato troops, 5 hurt |
KABUL A man in Afghan army uniform opened fire on Nato soldiers at a military base near Kabul, wounding five, the coalition said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of so-called green-on-blue attacks even as 61 Taliban militants have been killed in the last 24 hours.
Attacks by Afghan security forces on their allies from the US-led alliance have claimed 26 lives so far this year with the latest incident taking the total number of such attacks this year to 19.
“An individual wearing Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on coalition soldiers on Tuesday, wounding five,” Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the 130,000-strong US-led Nato coalition force said.
“The wounded coalition soldiers were evacuated to a medical facility.”
Dawlat Waziri, an Afghan defence ministry spok-esman, confirmed the incident in Maidan Wardak province, a troubled region south of Kabul and said the attack took place inside a military base shared by Afghan and Nato troops.
“A man wearing our army uniform opened fire on the coalition soldiers, wounding five soldiers. The attacker fled the area and we’re investigating the incident,” Waziri said.
Separately, a total of 61 Taliban militants have been killed in military operations carried out by Afghan forces and Nato-led coalition troops in the last 24 hours, said Afghanistan’s interior ministry.
“Afghan police, army, intelligence agency and the coalition forces launched five joint clean-up operations in Baghlan, Jawzjan, Paktika, Kandahar and Farah provinces, killing 61 armed Taliban insurgents over the past 24 hours,” Xinhua said.
Agencies
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