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Nato helicopter shot down in Helmand in Afghanistan
Four Nato soldiers have been killed when their helicopter was shot down in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.Nato said the aircraft was hit by "hostile fire". The troops were Americans, the US military spokesman in Kabul, Lt Col Joseph T Breasseale, said. The Taliban claimed its fighters had shot down the aircraft with a rocket-propelled grenade. The helicopter crashed in the Sangin district, said provincial government spokesman Dawood Ahmadi. Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi said it had been brought down in the Sangin district bazaar on Wednesday morning. "We brought it down with a rocket," he told AFP news agency. Posted by: tipper 2010-06-09 |
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