KABUL: An Afghan soldier shot dead a Nato colleague and was himself killed when a dispute ended in a shoot-out on Sunday, an Afghan security source and the Nato force said.

“At an ISAF base near the governor’s office at Zabul (in the south), six ISAF soldiers and three ANA (Afghan National Army) soldiers had a dispute which ended in an exchange of fire,” a source of Nato’s Afghan security force said.

“An ANA soldier killed a soldier from ISAF. He himself was killed when ISAF opened fire on him,” the source added. Others soldiers were wounded in the shoot-out.

An ISAF statement said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member was killed today in southern Afghanistan, apparently by a member of the Afghan National Army.” This is the latest in a string of deadly clashes between ISAF and Afghan soldiers.—AFP