14 British personnel killed in Afghanistan
02/09/2006 - 16:18:11Fourteen British armed personnel died today when the Nato aircraft in which they were travelling crashed in southern Afghanistan.
The aircraft was thought to have come down due to a technical fault at 4pm local time (13.30pm Irish time) 12 miles west of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said enemy action had been discounted at this stage.
An MoD spokesman said: “The Ministry of Defence is extremely sorry to have to confirm that the aircraft lost in Afghanistan earlier today supporting an ISAF mission was British, and that the crash led to 14 fatalities, 12 RAF, a Royal Marine and one from the Army.”
