The German army said on Monday that an Afghan guard was killed when the firefight erupted between Afghan security forces and unknown attackers Monday morning local time.
The exchange of fires took place at the north gate of Kabul airport when members of the Afghan security forces and soldiers from Germany and the US clashed with attackers, the German army said in a tweet Monday.
Three Afghan personnel were injured in the incident on Monday morning, the German army tweeted. They were treated by Norwegian paramedics at the airport compound.
American and German forces were also involved in the further course of the battle, the army said.
All soldiers of the German force are unharmed, the army added.
It is not known who carried out the attack.
On Sunday the US government had expressed concern about a potential attack by the terrorist militia Islamic State at the airport or in the vicinity.
The airport has been at the scene of chaos since the Taliban seized the Afghan capital on August 15 as US and international forces try to evacuate citizens and vulnerable Afghans.
Members of the opposition, journalists, human rights activists and local staff who worked for Western countries have feared acts of revenge from the hard-line rulers, the Taliban.
The airport has seen tumultuous scenes in recent days as Western states evacuate their citizens and local Afghan staff in the wake of the Taliban militants taking over the country.
Seven Afghan civilians had died amid the chaos around the airport, according to the British Ministry of Defence.
A NATO official has said that at least 20 people have died in and around the airport in the past week.
Evacuation of thousands from Kabul- ‘Hard And Painful’
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday the security situation in Afghanistan was changing rapidly and remained dangerous.
“Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands from Kabul is going to be hard and painful” and would have been “no matter when it began”, Biden said in a briefing at the White House.
“We have a long way to go and a lot could still go wrong.”
Biden said he had directed the State Department to contact stranded Americans.
“We’re executing a plan to move groups of these Americans to safety and to safely and effectively move them to the airport compound … I will say again today what I’ve said before: Any American who wants to get home will get home.”
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday ordered U.S. commercial airlines to provide planes to assist in Afghanistan evacuation of U.S. personnel and Afghans after the activation of Stage I of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet CRAF).
The US has already evacuated nearly 25,000 personnel since August 14 even as tens of thousands still remain to be pulled out of Afghanistan.
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