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Five British soldiers shot, killed
The incident occurred Tuesday, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported.
"It's our understanding that one individual Afghan national policeman, possibly in conjunction with another, went rogue," a British Defense Ministry spokesman said. The spokesman said he fired without warning "before anyone could respond."
The Defense Ministry said a search was under way for the "rogue" policeman, whose motives were unclear. There were suggestions he might have had a dispute with his commander.
The BBC quoted a spokesman for the British Task Force in Helmand that three of the soldiers were from the Grenadier Guards and the other two from the Royal Military Police.
The five had been mentoring and living with Afghan police in a compound in the province's Nad Ali district, the report said. The attacker opened fire, injuring several other troops, before fleeing.
The Telegraph report said two Afghan policemen also were believed to have died in the shooting.
It was unclear if the attacker was a Taliban, whose members are believed to have infiltrated Afghan security institutions.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/04/2009
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Posted Comments:
11-04-2009 17:13
wrote:
brits down
did we train the shooter
11-04-2009 10:28
wrote:
Pigs. They are just rutting pigs. I do not know how anyone would volunteer to join this religion of murder and betrayal unless they were mentally ill. The ones who are born into it are so inbred that I suppose they don't know any different way of life.
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