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A female Afghan police officer has shot dead a US military adviser in a high security police headquarters, RT reported, citing a senior police official. This is the first green on blue attack since September and the first ever in Afghanistan involving a woman. 

Afghan officials have identified the attacker as Police Sgt. Nargas, a mother of four who had a clean record.

"Her background is very clean. We don't see that she had any connection with armed insurgent groups,'' An interior Ministry Spokesman, Sediqi Seidiqqi, in an interview with AFP.

He added that she aroused no suspicion because she frequently went back and forth on business between the compound and the Interior Ministry where she worked.

She fired only one shot that fatally struck the American in the chest, Seidiqqi said.

She had previously worked in a human rights department of the police and had been a refugee in Pakistan and Iran.

A police official confirmed that she was able to enter the compound with a firearm because she was a police officer.

An investigation into the shooting is underway. The shooter was detained by her fellow officers after the incident but refused to answer questions as to her motive after hours of interrogation, Sidiqqi added.

The American was a civilian worker who worked in NATO command, spokesperson US Air Force Lt. Col. Lester T. Carroll told AP. The woman has so far refused to explain her motive for the attack.