AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): At least two dozen Afghan security forces have been killed in an insider attack on their base in southern Afghanistan, two officials told AFP news agency.
Rahmatullah Yarmal, spokesman for the governor of Zabul province, said in Friday's pre-dawn raid, six policemen opened fire on sleeping troops at a joint police and army headquarters near Qalat, the capital of the southern province, long considered a Taliban stronghold.
"At 3am (10:30 GMT), 24 Afghan police and army forces were martyred when six police infiltrators opened fire on them while they were asleep," he said.
According to TOLO News, an Afghan news website, Ata Jan Haq Bayan, the Zabul provincial council chief, put the number of dead security personnel at 20 and the number of attackers at eight. He added that four other Afghan security forces were missing.
"The attackers had connections with the Taliban insurgents," Bayan said.
They fled in two military Humvee vehicles, along with a pickup truck, weapons and ammunition, AFP reported.
Councillor Asadullah Kakar also told the dpa news agency that eight insiders, with the support of the Taliban militants, killed their comrades while they were sleeping.
The attackers have taken all weapons and ammunition, he added.
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source : Aljazeera
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20 March 2020
2:18:30 PM
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Taliban ‘infiltrators’ kill dozens of Afghan troops in insider attack: Officials
At least two dozen Afghan security forces have been killed in an insider attack on their base in southern Afghanistan, two officials told AFP news agency.