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3 US Troops Wounded in Afghanistan Insider Attack

Carla Babb

   PENTAGON - Three U.S. service members were wounded in an insider attack
   Monday in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

   A U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, Army Col. Sonny Leggett, said
   a member of the Afghan Civil Order Police fired on a military convoy,
   and that the service members sustained "non-life-threatening injuries."

   "The attacker was killed by return fire from Resolute Support forces,"
   he added.

   Another official confirmed to VOA the three wounded in the attack were
   all Americans.

   The attack is under investigation.

   The Taliban claimed responsibility for the green-on-blue attack and
   wrongly stated that U.S. service members were killed.

   The incident came two months after another reported insider attack
   killed two American soldiers in Uruzgan province.

   To date, the U.S. has lost 17 service members in Afghanistan this year.

   Helmand province

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