KANDAHAR: An elite
Afghan soldier shot dead an American mentor and his translator at a US base,
Afghan officials said on Friday, in the first rogue shooting blamed on the
country’s new and closely vetted special forces.
The soldier opened fire at an
American military base on Wednesday in Shah Wali Kot district, in volatile
Kandahar province, said General Abdul Hamid, the commander of Afghan army forces
in the Taliban’s southern heartland.
“The shooting took place after a verbal
conflict where the Afghan special forces soldier opened fire and killed an
American special forces member and his translator,” Hamid told Reuters.The
latest shooting will be of grave concern to both sides.
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