PULI ALAM: A Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan yesterday killed five Afghan soldiers, government officials said, while the coalition said it was investigating reports of the incident.
The deaths are likely to worsen already fraught relations between the US-led Nato coalition and President Hamid Karzai, who has often seized on botched airstrikes to launch bitter criticism of the international military effort in Afghanistan.
“At 3.30am this morning, due to a Nato airstrike in Charkh district, Logar province, five service members of the Afghan national army were martyred and eight others were wounded,” defence ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said on his Twitter account.
UK soldier killed in Helmand
London: A British soldier has died as a result of “non battle-related injuries” at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, the BBC reported.
The British Ministry of Defence said the soldier, of 32 Engineer Regiment, died earlier in an incident which “did not involve any enemy action”.
He is the first British soldier to die in Afghanistan in 2014.
A total of 448 British personnel have now died while serving in Afghanistan since the start of operations in October 2001.
Camp Bastion is in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. AGENCIES
