An Afghan soldier opened fired on American troops, killing one, after they came out of a meeting with a provincial governor in the city of Jalalabad on Wednesday.
A couple of others were wounded and the gunman was killed, CBS News reported.
Gen. Fazel Ahmad Sherzad, police chief for eastern Nangarhar province, said the Afghani started firing at the troops and a U.S. embassy official as soon as they exited the meeting. He also said U.S. troops immediately returned gunfire, and killed the suspect.
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Hazrat Husain Mashriquwal told CBS News two others wounded in the incident were Afghan soldiers. But the Associated Press reported four U.S. troops were wounded and were sent to a hospital on a nearby American base.
This is the second so-called friendly fire and insider attack on Americans in Afghanistan this year. In late January, an Afghan solider shot and killed three U.S. contractors.
An American general was previously killed by an insider attack, too. In August 2014, Major Gen. Harold Greene was hit by Afghan security forces, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer to die during conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Several other Americans were injured in that same attack.
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