Kabul, January 18: The US-led occupation forces have killed two Afghan civilians and injured another.
On Sunday, German soldiers on duty in the northern province of Kunduz fired at two occupants of a vehicle which, they said, was barreling toward them in defiance of warnings, the German news agency DPA reported.
One was killed and the other was injured.
The vehicle had broken out of a traffic build-up behind a German checkpoint, said the German contingent’s spokesman, Jurgen Mertins.
Also on Sunday, the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) reported a similar incident which resulted in one civilian mortality in the Garmsir district of the southern province of Helmand. ISAF said in a statement that the vehicle involved in the incident was speeding toward a NATO convoy.
“The vehicle had no headlights, and was travelling at a high rate of speed at the time of the incident,” the statement reported.
“After firing three to five rounds into the grill of the vehicle, it stopped … One civilian received a gunshot wound to the chest” and died later in a military hospital, the ISAF statement added.
In addition, the Associated Press quoted regional police spokesman Raouf Ahmedi as saying that a militant ambush on Sunday had killed a district chief, the local director of criminal investigation, another employee, a bodyguard, and two policemen in the western province of Herat.
——-Agencies