KABUL (PAN): Foreign forces killed one civilian and injured another in Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Saturday, an official said.

The incident happened in the Cha Injir area, a member of the Nad Ali social council, Dr Abdul Karim, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

He said that the Taliban fighters attacked the NATO-led troops, who shot dead a non-combatant and wounded one other in retaliatory fire.

Two wounded civilian were brought to hospital, said a doctor at the Emergency Hospital in the provincial capital, Lashkargah. One of them succumbed to his wounds while the other is in stable condition.

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