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Conflicting stories told of Kabul shooting

International troops have been in Kabul since December.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- International security forces patrolling Kabul and an Afghan civilian offered conflicting accounts Saturday over an outbreak of gunfire earlier in the day.

An unidentified gunman in a car speeded past a British security post at Kabul international airport around 1:30 a.m. (4 p.m. ET Friday) and opened fire on six British paratroopers, said Lt. Col. Neal Packham, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force.

The troops returned fire and were later extracted from their post by an ISAF "vehicle patrol," Packham.

None of the paratroopers were injured in the incident, Packham said. The soldiers belong to Britain's 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment that is part of the 17-nation, 4,000-member ISAF deployed to maintain security in Kabul.

Kabul resident Masrolah Yaqueibi told Associated Press Television a different story later Saturday. He said he was among five people in a car carrying a pregnant woman to a hospital.

The ISAF troops opened fire without provocation, he said, killing a boy in the car and injuring three others.

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"We don't have any weapons, we are civilians," Yaqueibi said. "In this area, nobody ever started shooting. Always this area has been calm."

At daylight Saturday, members of the interim Afghan government police force and ISAF troops returned to the scene to investigate.

The Royal Military Police, which is attached to the ISAF, was asked to conduct a criminal investigation, Packham said.

The incident was the first shooting involving the international security forces near Kabul since they arrived last December.

Investigators found a car riddled with bullet holes that they believe was connected with the incident, Packham said.

In a nearby house, they found four injured people believed to be Afghans and the body of a 19-year-old Afghan. A postmortem examination determined the teen-ager died from a gunshot wound to the head, according to Packham.

The wounded were taken to a hospital, he said, but their injuries were not life-threatening and were not caused by gunfire.

"What happened is a matter for the investigation to determine," Packham said. "The incident will certainly be reviewed as part of our ongoing review of security matters in the city."

Saturday's incident came two days after interim Afghan government's Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism Abdul Rahman was killed at Kabul's airport.

Hamid Karzai, the government's interim leader, called Rahman's slaying an assassination. Security has been stepped up since.