Kabul, April 11: The international force in Afghanistan says an Afghan soldier has opened fire on US-led troops, lightly wounding one alliance soldier, southwest of Kabul.
Major Marcin Walczak, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, said the Afghan soldier fled after firing on a group of NATO and other Afghan troops in Ghazni province, southwest of Kabul, late Saturday.
According to Reuters, NATO did not identify the nationality of the wounded soldier.
This year 147 US-led troops were killed in Afghanistan. Some 126,000 NATO and US forces have been deployed to the war-torn country.
Meanwhile a home-made bomb tore through a bus carrying a mine clearance team in the South of the country on Sunday, killing four and injuring more than a dozen others, officials said.
The improvised explosive device detonated as the bus drove down a dirt road near the Daman district.
“The mine clearers were travelling in a minibus. There was a remote-controlled bomb on the road. They struck the bomb,” AFP quoted Daman district governor Sarajuddin Khan as saying.
———Agencies