Two US service members were killed and six others injured when an individual in an Afghan uniform opened fire on them, the US military said on Saturday, SIA reports.
The incident, which took place in Nangarhar province, occurred after a combined US and Afghan force was returning from a "key-leader engagement," Colonel Sonny Leggett, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement.
Nangarhar Provincial Council member Ajmal Omer told The Associated Press the gunman was killed. It wasn't immediately clear if the gunman was an insurgent infiltrator or rogue Afghan military personnel.
There have been numerous attacks by Afghan national army soldiers on their allied partners over the 18 years since the US invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Omer is a member of the provincial council and from Nangarhar province's Sherzad district, where he said the incident took place. An Afghan soldier was wounded, Omer said, without saying whether the wounded soldier had been involved in the shootings.
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