One Nato soldier and two Afghan civilians were killed when a gunman opened fire on a coalition forces convoy in southern Afghanistan, a police official said on Saturday. A shopkeeper and a child were killed when a convoy of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was attacked in Kandahar, provincial police chief Sher Shah Yousufzai said.
The gunman was killed in the shootout the ensued, he said. "It is unclear which side fired the fatal shots," he added. The ISAF confirmed the death of a service member in "an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan" but declined to say in its statement whether the death occurred in Kandahar. Elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan, a former Guantanamo prison inmate was killed by the international forces Friday night.
Sabar Lal, an alleged al Qaeda affiliate who was jailed in Bagram prison in Afghanistan and US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by international forces in eastern province of Nangarhar, that borders Pakistan. "Saber Lal was killed last night in Jalalabad city in a joint operation by ISAF and Afghan forces," Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor's spokesman confirmed. Nato-led ISAF forces also issued a statement confirming his death. "A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network during a security operation in Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province, yesterday," ISAF said in a statement on Saturday.
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