Kabul: A suspected policeman has killed four NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, the US-led military says, in the latest apparent attack involving Afghan security forces killing their allies.
NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not provide further details but said the incident took place in southern Afghanistan, a hotbed of the Taliban-led insurgency.
Four ISAF “service members died today in southern Afghanistan following an insider attack suspected to involve members of the Afghan police,” ISAF said in a statement.
Two British soldiers died in a similar attack on Saturday.
The force — which has around 16,000 members — is US-sponsored and recruited to fight Taliban insurgents in remote areas of the Afghan countryside, though it has been accused of corruption and violence towards civilians.
Training for the mainstream police and the Afghan army — carried out by NATO rather than the US — has not been affected.
Afghanistan says it has arrested or sacked hundreds of Afghan soldiers for suspected insurgency links in a bid to stem a trend that threatens to undermine Western plans for a troop withdrawal.
NATO attributes around 75 percent of the attacks to grudges, misunderstandings and cultural differences. The Afghan defence ministry this month published a hastily-written brochure for 195,000 members of the Afghan army with advice on how to behave around and not misunderstand Western soldiers.
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