KABUL, July 31: Jumpy US soldiers fired on a taxi in Kabul on Thursday, wounding three officers of Afghanistan’s fledgling national army that US forces have been helping to train.

The embarrassing mishap, the latest in a series of violent incidents in Afghanistan this week, occurred a day after America’s top soldier, Gen Richard Myers, visited the country and said the security situation was improving.

On Tuesday, unidentified men shot dead a mosque imam from a pro-government council in southern Afghanistan __ the third such attack in the last few weeks.

And the US-led forces hunting said they had killed at least three suspected Taliban near a US base in the east on Wednesday night.

Thursday’s shooting in Kabul happened on the same road and less than two months after a suicide bomber in a taxi killed himself and five others, four of them German peacekeeping soldiers.

The attacker detonated a bomb while the taxi was overtaking a bus filled with peacekeepers heading for the airport.—Reuters