Six Nato troops have been killed by a man wearing an Afghan police uniform during a training session in eastern Afghanistan.The man was also killed in the incident and a joint Afghan-Nato team is investigating, the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) announced in a short statement.
ISAF did not disclose the casualties' nationalities, in line with its policy, but Americans make up most of the foreign troops based in eastern Afghanistan, one of the worst flashpoints in the nine-year Taliban insurgency.
The deaths brings the toll coalition forces lost this year to 668, according to statistics from AFP, the highest annual toll since the US-led invasion in late 2001.In each case, assailants on motorcycles approached the cars as they were moving through Tehran and attached magnetized bombs to the vehicles,
Tehran police chief Hossein Sajednia said. The bombs exploded seconds later, he said, according to the state news agency IRNA. He said no one has been arrested in connection with the attack nor no one has so far claimed responsibility.
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