At least one Afghan woman has been killed and two others injured after security guards mistakenly shot at their vehicle in the Afghan capital Sunday evening.
The shooting took place in Kart-e-Seh area of Kabul city after security guards of Yama Karzai, an official at the National Directorate of Security (NDS), opened fire on the civilian vehicle, witnesses said.
The vehicle was targeted by security guards of Yama Karzai who are said to have believed the people were militants.
Kabul police chief Gen. Ayoub Salangi told TOLOnews that the Toyota Town Ace vehicle had ignored the Afghan police orders to stop, which led to the shooting by Afghan security forces.
It comes amid tensions between the Afghan government and the international forces led by Nato over the deaths of civilians in military operations.
Most recently, two Afghan boys aged 7 and 8 were killed Thursday when Australian soldiers in Uruzgan fired at the boys during an attack on alleged Taliban insurgents.
President Hamid Karzai on Sunday condemned the shooting.
Attacks on NDS offices have notably increased in the past two months.
Sunday night's shooting comes only a week after Afghan security forces gunned down an insurgent who was driving an explosive-laden SUV near an NDS office in Kabul's Sherpur area.
The would-be suicide bomber was shot while driving, with the car bomb later identified and defused.
The guard who shot the insurgent told officials that he shot the man because he had seen him raise a gun.
The same day, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near an NDS compound in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. At least two security guards were killed in the incident.
Shortly before the Jalalabad attack, an assailant detonated a van packed with explosives at a highway police checkpoint in eastern Logar province, injuring three police officers.