(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Two people were killed and at least one was injured in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Friday when US-led foreign soldiers opened fire at a bus carrying civilians, a Press TV correspondent reported.
NATO has issued a statement saying the incident took place when a foreign patrol was attacked, but failed to confirm which side has killed the people.
In another incident, a bomb aimed at killing police forces, exploded near the market in Kandahar and killed one civilian and wounded three others including a woman and two children.
Local sources told Press TV that a policeman was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Kandahar early Friday morning.
No group or individual has claimed responsibility for Friday killing and the blast.
In another bomb blast in the northern province of Kunduz in Afghanistan on Friday, at least six civilians were killed and several others were injured.
More than 2,000 civilians were killed in violence across Afghanistan last year, making it the deadliest year for civilians since the US-led invasion in 2001, reports say.
Civilian casualties have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and US-led foreign forces. The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan.
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