KABUL - Eight US soldiers were killed and 14 injured when a helicopter crashed in an insurgency-hit part of southeastern Afghanistan early Sunday after a ‘sudden loss of power,’ the US-led coalition said. The twin-rotor transport chopper came down in darkness in the southeastern province of Zabul, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul, not far from a main highway, residents and officials said.| Prayers for the dead and injured, and for their families. |
‘Eight coalition personnel were killed and 14 others were wounded early Sunday when a coalition CH-47 helicopter had a sudden, unexplained loss of power and control and crashed in eastern Afghanistan,’ a coalition statement said. ‘The helicopter was transporting a total of 22 people, including aircrew, at the time of the crash,’ it said.