Number of deaths of victims of NATO to the Kabul airport shooting rises to 9 - Xinhua

(Kabul, April 27, Xinhua) - dead of-led NATO International Assistance Security Force (ISAF) in the shootout at Kabul airport on Wednesday reached nine, a statement of the published military alliance said here.

"Eight soldiers of the International Assistance Force to the security and civilian of the ISAF die after a shooting here today," confirmed the statement.

However, he did not identify the nationalities of the victims, saying that it is the policy of the ISAF to postpone casualty identification procedures to the competent national authorities.

In the previous statement, the alliance has developed the number of victims has suffered in the incident which happened in the Afghan Air Corps just six soldiers from 11: 00 local time.

Earlier, the Afghan Defence Ministry confirmed in a statement this shooting between an Afghan driver and his colleagues abroad to Afghan Air Corps which located in the western part of Kabul airport left a number of dead and wounded.

Afghan Ministry of defence in the statement also noted that more details would be published after the end of the investigation.

Meanwhile, Taliban militants, fight against Afghan troops and NATO-led by Afghanistan claimed responsibility, saying the incident by a Loyalist Taliban nine foreigners and five Afghan soldiers were killed.

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Gunman kills the troops of the NATO to Kabul airport

Kabul--NATO members eight service and a contractor were shot and killed by an army officer Afghan, on Wednesday, while participating in a meeting of foreign and Afghan officers on the military side of Kabul International AirportAccording to statements by Afghan and NATO spokesman.

The filming took place at a meeting between American and Afghan officials, said colonel Bahader, a spokesman for the Afghan Army Air Corps. NATO did not confirm the nationality of the soldiers. None of the dead were Afghan troops, said General Mohammed Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Defence Ministry.

The gunman, according to senior aid to the Afghan army, was an old officer named Hamid Gul, who had been trained in 30 years when the Soviet Union occupied the country. The Afghan army refused to speculate on his motives. "You can read the mind of a person,", said Colonel Bahader, who like many Afghans, uses only one name. He described a chaotic scene in which some soldiers and officers flee dam bullets, jumping from second and third floor windows.

"They had suffered minor injuries, and some were injured with broken glass," said.

The Taliban claim responsibility for the attack, but identified the assailant as a Taliban militant of a district of Kabul Province named Azizullah. A spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said in a telephone interview that the aggressor "" lived in Kabul and he is wearing an Afghan military uniform, and when it short of ammunition, he was killed by foreign and Afghan soldiers. ""

In April, five Americans were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his charge at a joint meeting of Afghan-NATO to an Afghan army base in the Province of Laghman. Last November, six border police officers were killed by an officer of the ROE Afghan army. It was the fourth incident in the past two weeks, in which a person wearing a uniform of the Afghan security force attacked with in a Government compound.

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