Afghans try to storm NATO base

Hundreds of Afghans gathered at the gate of a NATO-run base in western Afghanistan on August 25. They were chanting and throwing stones after it was reported that an Afghan policeman had been killed in a clash with Spanish troops, RFE/RL reports. Afghans try to storm NATO base The BBC reports that an Afghan police recruit has shot dead two Spanish police officers and their interpreter in Badghis province, north-western Afghanistan. The assailant opened fire during a training session in a premeditated attack, according to Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba. Security forces returned fire and killed the police recruit. After the shooting, a crowd of angry locals violently protested outside a Spanish base in Qalay-i-Naw.

Afghans try to storm NATO base

The BBC reports that an Afghan police recruit has shot dead two Spanish police officers and their interpreter in Badghis province, north-western Afghanistan.

The assailant opened fire during a training session in a premeditated attack, according to Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba.

Security forces returned fire and killed the police recruit.

After the shooting, a crowd of angry locals violently protested outside a Spanish base in Qalay-i-Naw.