Afghan soldier shot dead at checkpoint
KABUL: An Afghan soldier was shot dead at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan Monday, a senior Afghan official said, in an attack he blamed on Taliban militants.
A second soldier was wounded when four people opened fire from a vehicle on the checkpoint near the town of Maywand, some 70 kilometers west of Kandahar, said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan military commander.
“Our forces fired on the vehicle, but we don’t know if they were hit, because it sped away toward the north,” Mohammed said.
He blamed Taliban militants, but didn’t elaborate. Troops were sent to the area to investigate, he said. More than 160 people have died in violence in Afghanistan so far this year, many of them in the troubled south and east where 13,500 US-led forces are battling a stubborn Taliban-led insurgency. —AP
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