Insider Attack: Afghan guards ambush NATO meeting, shoot two US soldiers and kill top Afghan police Chief
A shooting took place in Kandahar, Afghanistan during a NATO meeting with U.S. forces present. The reported insider attack by at Afghan guards killed an Afghan police chief and injured two American soldiers.
Shots rang out at the high-level security meeting held at the compound of the Afghan governor, where Gen. Scott Miller, Commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, was present but escaped without injury, NBC News reported Thursday.
BREAKING: Top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, escapes injury during shooting incident Thursday but police commander of Kandahar, Gen. Abdul Razeq, has been killed, and two other American citizens have been wounded https://t.co/8I58cXFKPg – @NBCNewsWorld
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 18, 2018
Taliban spokesperson Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the group was responsible for the attack, which intended to target Gen. Miller, according to the Associated Press.
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