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| Nato helicopter shot down in Helmand in Afghanistan |
| 2010-06-09 |
| 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 |
| #2 Update Four American servicemen were killed when their helicopter was shot down in southern Afghanistan today during a daring operation to evacuate wounded British soldiers from a firefight in Sangin. Their deaths bring to 29 the number Nato troops killed during an especially violent nine days. Afghan officials said the US helicopter was hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Nato confirmed that it was “brought down by hostile fire”. The US Air Force support helicopter was circling low over Sangin to protect a dedicated air ambulance — also known as a Medevac helicopter — which had landed in the vicinity of Britain’s Forward Operating Base Jackson to rescue “several wounded soldiers”. Officials said the wounded troops - some of whom were in a critical condition - were successfully airlifted to a military hospital but all four pilots and crew on board the support aircraft were killed. |
| Posted by: tipper 2010-06-09 16:17 |
| #1 lucky shot or sam? |
| Posted by: bman 2010-06-09 13:44 |