DHAKA: An Afghan policeman drugged and shot dead 10 of his comrades in the central province of Uruzgan.

An official said, reports Al Jazeera.

‘The policeman who had connections with armed militants first poisoned his comrades and than shot all of them during the night in a checkpoint,’ Dost Mohammad Nayab, a spokesman for the governor of Uruzgan, told the DPA news agency.

The attack occurred on Monday night and the suspect was on the run, he said.

Meanwhile, a convoy of police heading for the checkpoint on Tuesday morning repelled a Taliban attack with no casualties sustained, Nayab said.

So-called ‘green-on-blue’ attacks, when Afghan soldiers or police turn their guns on international troops or colleagues, have been a major problem during NATO’s long years fighting alongside Afghan forces.

The killings have bred fierce mistrust among local and foreign forces even as the rate of such incidents has dropped in recent years.

Two US service members were killed in August last year when an Afghan soldier opened fire in southern Helmand province.

BDST: 1538 HRS, JAN 26, 2016
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