US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan
http://www.chinaview.cn/ 2006-03-09
19:49:58 KABUL, March 9 (Xinhuanet)
-- A U.S. military chopper crashed in a mountainous area between Wardak and Ghazni provinces some 100 km south of here on Thursday, local officials said.
"The incident occurred around noon and it crashed inside Wardak territory," Ghazni's police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told Xinhua.
He did not give more details.
Confirming the incident, police chief of Wardak province Pacha Gul Bakhtiary also told Xinhua that personnel of law enforcing agencies had been sent to the area to locate the chopper's wreckage.
"Police have yet to spot the wreckage or identify the reason behind the incident or if there were any casualties," Bakhtiary asserted.
No U.S. military official was immediately available to make any comment on the issue
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19:49:58 KABUL, March 9 (Xinhuanet)
-- A U.S. military chopper crashed in a mountainous area between Wardak and Ghazni provinces some 100 km south of here on Thursday, local officials said.
"The incident occurred around noon and it crashed inside Wardak territory," Ghazni's police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told Xinhua.
He did not give more details.
Confirming the incident, police chief of Wardak province Pacha Gul Bakhtiary also told Xinhua that personnel of law enforcing agencies had been sent to the area to locate the chopper's wreckage.
"Police have yet to spot the wreckage or identify the reason behind the incident or if there were any casualties," Bakhtiary asserted.
No U.S. military official was immediately available to make any comment on the issue
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