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Tributes paid to first female victim of friendly fire in Afghanistan
www.dailyrecord.co.uk
[Scottish Daily Record] - Afghan police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said the firefight was triggered when their patrol came across an out-of-uniform Afghan cop who was washing in a stream before prayers. He said: “The British soldiers thought he was Taliban and opened fire
Security men, civilian injured in Helmand blasts
www.thefrontierpost.com
[Frontier Post] - Police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang said the first blast took place in east of Lashkargah, the provincial capital after a police vehicle struck a roadside bomb before noon. He told Pajhwok Afghan News that two policemen were injured and their vehicle
Channing Day: Shot by her own side in moment of chaos
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - “There was an Afghan policeman who had left his checkpoint in ordinary clothes with his weapon and was washing before praying,” said Farid Ahmad Farhang. “The British came upon him and suspected he was Taliban and opened fire, killing him. The other
Did Afghan policeman kill British female medic and Royal Marine?
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - Farid Ahmad Farhang, a spokesman for the police in Helmand, said two British patrols had been in the area and one had stumbled upon an Afghan policeman washing for prayer at a stream. They had mistaken him for a Taliban fighter and shot him dead.
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