French soldiers killed in Afghanistan

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is amidst the plans to abandon its training programmes in Afghanistan following the killing of four French soldiers by a serviceman from the Afghan National Army.

The incident took place in country's north-eastern province of Kapisa where an Afghan non-commissioned officer after a verbal conflict shot four soldiers dead and injured 16 others.

According to the reports by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the President is sending Defence Minister Gerard Longuet to the country in order to deal with the matter.

Sarkozy termed such incidents as 'unacceptable' and said that the security conditions should be tightened else there would be an early withdrawal of French army from Afghanistan.

BBC has quoted French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero as saying that during a fitness exercise, some of their unarmed soldiers were suddenly attacked by an Afghan soldier, adding, the soldiers were murdered and it was impossible for them, first of all, to know what was going to happen and secondly to react to this aggression.

At the same time, President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai in a statement conveyed his deepest condolences and sympathy to the French president, families of the victims and to the French people.

The two state heads might meet in Paris next week.