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Taliban attacks Afghan officials

By Agencies in Afghanistan | China Daily | Updated: 2012-03-14 08:09

Taliban attacks Afghan officials

Afghan protesters shout anti-US slogans during a demonstration in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province on Tuesday. [Noorullah Shirzada / Agence France-Presse]

Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials - including two of President Hamid Karzai's brothers - visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.

The attack came as students in the east staged the first significant protest in response to Sunday's shootings, raising worries of a repeat of the wave of strong demonstrations that rocked the nation after last month's burning of Qurans by troops at a US base.

The militants killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation in Balandi village, said General Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visit took place.

Another Afghan soldier and a military prosecutor were wounded, he said.

The delegation was in a mosque for a memorial service for those killed on Sunday when the gunfire erupted.

One of the president's brothers, Qayum Karzai, said the attack didn't seem serious to him. "We were giving them our condolences, then we heard two very, very light shots," said Karzai. "Then we assumed that it was the national army that started to fire in the air."

He said the members of the delegation, which also included Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa and Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, were safe and headed back to Kandahar city.

Before the attack on the delegation, the Taliban vowed to kill and behead those responsible for the civilian deaths in the two villages in Panjwai district, considered the birthplace of the militant group.

Nine of the 16 killed were children, and three were women, according to President Karzai.

The US has an Army staff sergeant in custody who is suspected of carrying out Sunday's pre-dawn killings but has not released his name.

Villagers have described him stalking from house to house in the middle of the night, opening fire on sleeping families and then burning some of the dead bodies.

Their anger was evident on Tuesday in discussions with the visiting officials before the attack cut the visit short.

"Today, the Kandahar governor was trying to explain to the villagers that he was only one soldier, that he was not a sane person and that he was sick," said Abdul Rahim Ayubi, a Kandahar lawmaker who was part of the delegation.

"But the people were just shouting and they were very angry. They didn't listen to the governor. They accused him of defending the Americans instead of defending the Kandahari people," Ayubi said.

AP-AFP

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