Two US service members were killed and six others were wounded after an individual in Afghan uniform opened fire with a machine gun in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, US military said.
The incident happened in Sherzad district after a combined US and Afghan force completed a “key-leader engagement,” at the district center, Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
“We are still collecting information and the cause or motive behind the attack is unknown at this time,” Leggett added.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry in a statement said that Afghan soldiers also suffered casualties in the incident. It said that one Afghan soldier was killed while three others were wounded in the incident.
“Attacks such as this by our enemies fail to have negative effects on the friendship and spirit of cooperation between the ANDSF and US military forces,” the statement said.
A delegation led by Chief of Army Staff Bismillah Waziri is investigating the incident together with the US team in Nangarhar, the statement said.
