MADRID (AFP) - An Afghan trainee policemen shot dead two Spanish paramilitary police and a Spanish interpreter in Afghanistan, Spains interior minister said Wednesday. The two police officers were training Afghan police in the northwestern province of Badghis when they come under fire, Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told the Cadena Ser radio station. In a class, one of the students apparently opened fire on the two Civil Guard policemen and the interpreter, who was also Spanish, and killed all three, he said. The security forces in turn repulsed the attack, fired on the assailant and killed him. The minister did not identify the three but said the two policemen were a captain and a second lieutenant. The incident took place in the Spanish base of Qalaw-i-Naw. Spain currently has 1,555 troops serving in NATOs International Security Assistance Force, according to the ISAF website. Most are based in the Regional Command West in Qal-i-Naw. Meanwhile, an Australian soldier was killed in an intense gunbattle with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, taking the countrys losses to 10 since early June. The very experienced soldier, who was not immediately named, died on Tuesday in a three-hour clash in a western area of Uruzgan province, where Australias 1,550 troops are based. The man was killed in action during an intense firefight with Taliban insurgents, the Australian Defence Forces Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston told journalists.