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imageWASHINGTON: Three American contractors killed in an apparent "insider attack" at Kabul airport were helping on maintenance of a small turboprop plane used by the Afghan air force, US defence officials said Friday.

The fatal shootings on Thursday at the heavily guarded airport were carried out by an Afghan wearing military uniform who fired a few bursts from an automatic weapon before he was killed in return fire, officials said. A fourth US contractor was wounded.

The contractors were overseeing maintenance work on a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft, a single-engine plane that is also used by the US Air Force for special operations forces.

An American firm, Sierra Nevada Corp, received a contract in 2012 to provide 18 modified versions of the plane for the Afghan army's special forces.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2015

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