KABUL, Afghanistan, July 20, SPA -- An official says foreign troopscalled in airstrikes during an apparently mistaken clashwith Afghan police, killing nine police officers andwounding five others in the country's west. The deputy governor of Farah province Younus Rasuli says aconvoy of foreign forces showed up at Anar Derah district. He says the foreign troops did not inform local Afghanofficials they were coming, and the police thought theywere enemy fighters, according to a report of the Associated Press. Rasuli says the two sides fought from about midnight till4 a.m. Sunday, and foreign forces called in air strikes. Both NATO and U.S. coalition officials say they arelooking into the reports.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/575206