Three Spaniards killed by Afghan police recruit

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An Afghan police recruit has shot dead two Spanish police officers and their interpreter in north-western Afghanistan, officials say.

The deaths occurred during an exchange of fire at a police training session, the Spanish interior minister and the Nato-led Isaf mission said.

The Afghan police recruit was also killed in the incident.

After the shooting, a crowd of angry locals were reported to be protesting outside a Spanish base.

Unconfirmed reports say that part of the base at Qalay-I-Naw in Badghis province may have been set on fire and that shots have been fired, the BBC's Quentin Somerville reports from the capital, Kabul.

"In a class, one of the students apparently opened fire on the two Civil Guard policemen and the interpreter, who was also Spanish, and killed all three," Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told the Cadena Ser radio station.

"The security forces in turn repulsed the attack, fired on the assailant and killed him."

Previous shootings of international personnel by Afghan recruits include an incident in which a rogue Afghan soldier killed three British troops in Helmand province last month.

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