BY FREEMAN MAKOPA
At least six American soldiers perished whilst one person survived and sustained injuries in a helicopter crash in Southern Afganstan, said the Defence officials anonymously.
Amid reports which followed the incident showed, no sign of enemy activity in the area.The crash is one of the most lethal incidents that has fallen under the Nato-led coalition in recent months.
There have been quite a number of similar accidents and crashes involving Nato aircraft over the last decade of which the real cause is not known but initial reports were claiming the crashes were either caused by accidents or enemy fire.
International Security Assistance Force said investigations were still under way as there has been no fruitful evidence to the crash.
“The cause of the crash in Kabul is unknown and an investigation on is under way Isaf said”.
Deputy Governor of Mohammed Jan Rasolyar province confirmed the incident saying the crash took place in the district of Shajau under a restive province bordering on Helmand and neighbouring Pakistan .
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“ I can confirm that a Nato helicopter crashed in the remote district of Shajau this afternoon , but we don’t have any information about the casualties or the cause of the hard landing”.
In 2011, the Taliban shot a Chinook helicopter handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan to Afghan forces, but some thousands remained.
Although there was no mutinous fire on the aircraft before the Black hawk crashed, once it was down there was enemy fire, said a US military officer anonymously.
About 84000 Nato led troops are serving in Afghanistan, including 60000 from the US and this year only, 109 US military soldiers died in Afghan out of the total 139, the death toll has dropped after they handed over responsibility for security to Afghan last summer.
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