Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Senior Afghan Police Official Assassinated VOA News 08 July 2010 ÐÑганÑкие ÑÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð±Ñ Photo: AP Afghan Taliban (FILE) Afghan officials say gunmen have shot and killed a senior Afghan police intelligence chief and his bodyguard. Gunmen ambushed Mohammad Gul, police intelligence director for western Kabul, Thursday as he returned home from his office in the Afghan capital. NATO also said two of its service members were killed in separate attacks in Afghanistan Thursday. Officials said an American soldier died in an insurgent attack in the country's east, and another soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in the south. The news comes a day after five Afghan government soldiers were accidentally killed and two others wounded in a NATO airstrike. The latest incident of "friendly fire" took place in eastern Ghazni province. Afghan officials condemned the deaths, saying it was not the first time international troops have mistakenly killed Afghan soldiers. Also Wednesday, Britain announced it would withdraw its troops from one of the most violent areas in southern Afghanistan. British Defense Secretary Liam Fox told Parliament that British soldiers will hand over control of the Sangin district of Helmand province to U.S. forces later this year.  He said he wants to bring some 9,500 British forces home from Afghanistan within five years.  British forces have suffered heavy losses in Sangin. One-third of the 312 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 have died there. Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP. .