Member of U.S.-led coalition killed in Afghanistan in apparent insider attack

By Pamela Constable October 22 at 4:31 PM

KABUL — A soldier from the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan was killed Monday and two others were injured in an apparent insider attack by a member of the Afghan security forces, U.S. military officials here said.

The victims were not immediately identified, and no other details of the incident were released.

Afghan military sources said they were trying to confirm reports that an Afghan special operations forces commando had opened fire on U.S. troops in the Shindand region of western Herat province, killing one.

A Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. Robert Manning III, said later that the fatality in Herat was not an American. He declined to say whether any of the wounded were U.S. troops and referred further questions to the NATO mission in Afghanistan.

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