KABUL, May 12: Four coalition soldiers were killed in three incidents in Afghanistan on Saturday, Nato’s International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said.

Afghan sources said at least one British soldier died and another was wounded when two Afghan policemen turned their weapons on their allies in a joint base in southern Helmand province.

In terse statements, Isaf said two soldiers died following an insurgent attack, one was killed in a bomb blast and another died as a result of a “non-battle related injury” — all in southern Afghanistan.

Helmand province police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said that “two Afghan policemen opened fire on British soldiers inside a joint military base in Nahre Saraj district, killing one British soldier and wounding another”.

“The police shooter was also killed when foreign troops returned fire, the second policeman has been injured.”

A security official in the province, Mohammad Ismail Hotak, confirmed the attack, saying “at least one foreign soldier” was killed.—AFP