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Shooting at Afghan army base kills four soldiers
- An Afghan soldier opened fire in his barracks on Monday, killing four of his fellow troopers, a spokeswoman for the provincial governor said.
- A US spokesman reported that US-led coalition forces and Afghan troops killed a Taliban leader, adding that two children were caught in the crossfire, while Taliban fighters ambushed a police patrol over the weekend, and the subsequent battle left six police and 12 militants dead, said Kandahar provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib. Farzana Ahmadi said authorities had arrested one soldier and suspected he had links with guerrillas fighting the government and foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan. Four soldiers were killed in the shooting and authorities say probably the soldier who fired had links with government opponents, she said.
During the raid of the home in eastern Paktia province, suspected militants fired guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the coalition and Afghan troops, forcing the soldiers to return fire. Two children were killed in the exchange, said Major Donald Korpi. The midlevel leader killed in the raid was identified as Commander Saleem, whom the US accused of having attacked Afghan and foreign troops.
- In Kandahar province, Taliban fighters ambushed police traveling in between Ghorak and Mawiwand on Saturday, sparking a six-hour battle, Saqib said. Elsewhere in Kandahar province, Taliban fighters beheaded two civilians they accused of being spies for the government or NATO, Saqib said.
- In the east, insurgents fired mortars at a village in Kunar province, killing a boy and wounding eight other people, including five NATO soldiers, a NATO statement said on Monday. Also on Monday, a bomb attached to a bicycle detonated near the Turkish consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, wounding three civilians, including one child, an official and witnesses said.
Posted by: Fred 2007-07-10 |
