3 Aussies Killed in Afghan Insider Attack

Another 2 Australians die in Black Hawk crash
By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 30, 2012 3:18 AM CDT
3 Aussies Killed in Afghan Insider Attack
An Australian special forces soldier watches his colleagues enter a Black Hawk helicopter in Uruzgan, Afghanistan.   (AP Photo/Australian Defense Force)

Yet another "insider attack" made yesterday the deadliest day of 2012 for Australian forces in Afghanistan. Three Aussie soldiers were killed by somebody in an Afghan National Army uniform at a base in the southern province of Uruzgan, reports Reuters. Defense officials had no further details on the shooting—the 34th so-called "green on blue" attack on coalition forces in Afghanistan so far this year. Another two Australian soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash this morning, bringing the country's death toll in Afghanistan this year to six. (More Afghanistan stories.)

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