Eight Afghan military killed in insider attack

KABUL – An Afghan policeman shot passed during slightest 8 associate officers, burnt their bodies and took their weapons to join Taliban militants, provincial officials pronounced on Thursday, adding to a fee from dozens of insider attacks in this year alone.

The latest insider conflict occurred in northeastern Takhar province, and came only days after a US infantryman was killed by an Afghan policeman in eastern Logar province, a second American to be killed in an insider conflict this year.

“The occurrence happened early Thursday morning, after a internal military non-stop glow on his colleagues sleeping in a checkpoint in Khwaja Ghar district,” Takhar provincial military spokesman, Khalil Asir said. He pronounced a bodies were after set on glow and burned.

The perpetrator was apparently connected with a Taliban, Asir said, adding that he fled to a organisation holding weapons.

Insider attacks by Afghan soldiers or military or by enemy wearing uniform have been a vital problem in new years. There are distant some-more insider attacks on Afghan confidence army than on Western forces.

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