Six U.S. troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash

Six infantrymen from the US-led NATO mission fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan had been killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, with NATO officials pronouncing it was not a suspected militant strike. Then again the Taliban instantly claimed responsibility for the deaths, using their major Twitter account to file that their fighters had shot down a US helicopter in the province of Zabul. The incident was once the one biggest loss of life for the NATO mission in Afghanistan considering seven Georgian squaddies died when a suicide bomber blew up a truck loaded with explosives out of doors a base in Helmand province in June. “Six World Security Help Drive (ISAF) provider participants died following an plane crash in southern Afghanistan as of late,” an ISAF commentary said, declining to present the nationalities of the victims.

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