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Nato troops shot in Afghanistan | |
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A US serviceman has been killed and two Italians wounded in Afghanistan, officials say, amid reports an Afghan soldier was responsible. | |
A senior Afghan officer told Reuters that the Afghan soldier opened fire on the foreign troops, and that he was also injured and was now in hospital. | |
But a spokesman for the the Nato-led Isaf mission said that the details of the incident were not clear. | |
An Isaf official told the BBC that it was now under investigation. | |
The official stressed that it could not be confirmed that the US soldier was shot by an Afghan soldier. | |
Correspondents say that it was also not clear if the shootings happened as a result of a deliberate attack, or whether it was a friendly fire incident as part of a wider battle taking place at the time. | |
A number of American soldiers have in the past been killed or injured by Afghan soldiers in friendly fire incidents and deliberate attacks. |
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