Several people were killed and wounded in a shooting between an Afghan Air Force pilot and foreign troops following a dispute at the airport in the Afghan capital, the Afghan defence ministry said in a statement.
Several people were killed and wounded in a shooting between an Afghan Air Force pilot and foreign troops following a dispute at the airport in the Afghan capital, the Afghan defence ministry said in a statement.
The shooting follows a string of attacks by Afghan security forces against their NATO-led mentors carried out either by "rogue" soldiers or by insurgents in uniform who have managed to infiltrate their ranks.
Such incidents highlight the challenge for US and NATO forces as they try to prepare for a gradual handover of security responsibilities that will begin in July and end with the withdrawal of all foreign combat troops by the end of 2014.
A spokesperson for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said there were casualties among its troops after the Kabul airport shooting but could not disclose whether any had been killed.
"We can confirm an incident took place in the Afghan Air Force compound within the airport involving small-arms fire.
We do not know what started the incident and we believe the incident has now concluded," the ISAF spokesperson said.
"Yes, there are ISAF casualties," he said.
The Afghan defence ministry did not provide any more details about the incident except that the shooting followed a dispute between the pilot and foreign troops.
Earlier this month, an Afghan border policeman shot dead two foreign soldiers on a training mission in the northern province of Faryab.
Rapid recruitment into the Afghan security forces, which will be boosted to at least 305,000, has raised fears the Taliban have infiltrated sympathisers into the Afghan police and army.
Afghan authorities began tighter vetting of recruits after a renegade soldier killed five British troops in 2009, but there have still been at least 20 people killed in such incidents.
In February, at least two German soldiers were killed by a man wearing an Afghan army uniform in northern Baghlan province, and last November a border policeman shot and killed six US troops while they were on a training mission.
Earlier that month, three troops from the NATO-led coalition were shot by an Afghan soldier in the south, and in August two Spanish police and an interpreter were killed by an Afghan policeman they were training in the northwest.
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