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Seventeen civilians beheaded in Afghanistan's Helmand | |
(35 minutes later) | |
Seventeen civilians have been beheaded in Afghanistan, local officials say, with 10 Afghan soldiers killed in a separate incident. | |
The civilians died in Musa Qala district, in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday night. | |
The 10 soldiers were killed in the same province when insurgents attacked a security checkpoint also on Sunday. | |
Meanwhile, an Afghan soldier reportedly killed two foreign soldiers on Monday in eastern Laghman province. | |
"Last night 17 local villagers, two women and 15 men, were beheaded by unknown people in Kajaki district," Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand province, told Agence-France Presse (AFP) news agency. | |
"We don't know who was behind the killings at this time. We're investigating," he added. | |
'Insider plot' | 'Insider plot' |
The attack on the 10 soldiers took place in Washir district. It left four other Afghan soldiers injured and at least another five missing, reports said. | |
It is not clear whether they were abducted or went with the attackers voluntarily. | |
"There was an attack on one of our posts in Washir district. Ten soldiers are dead in that attack," Col Mohammad Ismaiel Hotak, deputy head of the regional co-ordinating body for the Afghan army and the US-led NATO force, was quoted by AFP as saying. | "There was an attack on one of our posts in Washir district. Ten soldiers are dead in that attack," Col Mohammad Ismaiel Hotak, deputy head of the regional co-ordinating body for the Afghan army and the US-led NATO force, was quoted by AFP as saying. |
But Daud Ahmadi told AFP that the attack was an "insider plot". "Five others have gone with the Taliban with their guns," he said. | |
Both officials said that the incident was being investigated. | Both officials said that the incident was being investigated. |
Attacker killed | |
The incident in Langhman province is one of at least 12 so-called "green on blue" attacks by Afghan security personnel on international troops this month. The nationality of the soldiers who were killed is not yet known. | |
"Isaf [International Security Assistance Force] soldiers returned fire and killed the attacker," an ISAF spokesman told AFP. | |
A total of 42 Isaf personnel have been killed by members of the Afghan security forces this year. | |
Currently, approximately 130,000 ("blue") Nato troops are fighting insurgents in Afghanistan alongside 350,000 ("green") Afghans. |