more details later, updates soon
*update3 (maybe final) is above
2012-03-C-001
For Immediate Release
KABUL, Afghanistan (Mar. 1) – Two individuals, one believed to be an Afghan National Army service member and the other in civilian clothing, turned their weapons indiscriminately against International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Security Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing two ISAF service members.
It is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. For questions regarding ANSF casualties and involvement, please contact the Afghan Ministry of Defense.
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update1:
from Omid Farooq (TOLONews):
2 Nato troops killed Thursday when an Afg soldier and a civilian turned their weapons against them in southern Afghanistan, the coalition military said.
The civilian was a literacy teacher who grabbed a weapon from a soldier
and opened fire in a military outpost in troubled Kandahar province,
the dead soldiers were Americans.
Zhary district chief Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi told AFP
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update2:
by Bashir Ahmad Naedem - PAJHWOK News
The shooting took place in the Sangsar area of Zherai district at 2:30am, district chief Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi told Pajhwok Afghan News. An ANA education corps member, appointed by the Karwan Company, fired at the NATO-led soldiers.
“In retaliatory fire, coalition troops killed the attacker and an ANA soldier. Another soldier was injured,” the official added. Full details of the shooting were yet to emerge, he continued.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi linked the incident to a verbal clash between Afghan and NATO-led soldiers on the issue of the Quran burning.
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update3: By NICK SCHIFRIN (@nickschifrin) and ALEEM AGHA- ABC News
An Afghan teacher brought in to teach basic reading and writing to Afghan security forces, along with two Afghan soldiers, turned guns on American soldiers today, killing two, NATO officials said.
The trio opened fire with automatic rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade on a guard tower in southern Afghanistan staffed by American soldiers before dawn Thursday, according to Afghan and NATO officials.
The attackers briefly escaped after the attack but were run down by a quick reaction force that included a helicopter, a NATO official said.
The teacher and one soldier were killed, and the other Afghan soldier was captured.
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