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Afghan soldier kills 2 U.S. troops outside top-security jail
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An Afghan soldier shot and killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded two more outside a top-security prison near Kabul Sunday, a U.S. military spokesman said.
The gunman was shot dead by other Afghan troops at Pul-e-Charkhi prison, some 20 miles east of Kabul, said Maj. Sheldon Smith, a spokesman for Combined Security Transition Command, a body that trains and mentors Afghan security forces.
The Americans were providing external security for the prison when they were shot, Smith said. U.S. and Afghan authorities opened investigations into the shooting and were trying to determine the motive for the attack, he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/afghan.us.soldier.ap/index.html
The Americans were providing external security for the prison when they were shot, Smith said. U.S. and Afghan authorities opened investigations into the shooting and were trying to determine the motive for the attack, he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/afghan.us.soldier.ap/index.html
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"Our initial investigations show that the ANA soldier who opened fire and killed two US nationals and wounded another two was hospitalized twice at the military hospital for mental illness," Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi Azimi told Agence France Presse (AFP).
"After he was discharged from the hospital, it was believed he was cured completely and was considered healthy."
Azimi said the ANA soldier had been in the army for a year and a half, claiming he had been behaving nervously around his fellow soldiers shortly before the shooting.
The attacker, among a group of soldiers guarding the Pul-i-Charki jail, was shot dead by his colleagues after shooting the US troops as they were driving away from the high-profile prison.
The US-led forces said late Sunday a "rogue" soldier attacked its military trainers working with Afghans at Pul-i-Charkhi prison, some 20 miles east of Kabul.
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