KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Three U.S. soldiers were killed and another was wounded Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the Pentagon said.
An Afghan official said the deaths and injury stem from an attack by an Afghan soldier, who also died.
In a statement from Washington, the Pentagon didn’t provide details about what led to the deaths of the U.S. soldiers. It said the incident was under investigation.
A spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar province, Attahullah Khogyani, said in a statement that the attack took place in the Achin district.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid says in a statement that a Taliban loyalist had infiltrated the Afghan army “just to attack foreign forces.”