Four feared dead in US army helicopter crash
20/04/2012 - 13:23:06Four US army personnel are feared dead after a helicopter crashed in bad weather during the night in Afghanistan.
The aircraft had been on its way to the site of a suicide attack on a local police checkpoint in Helmand province, an Afghan official said.
The American military has confirmed the Black Hawk crashed on a nighttime mission, and initial reports indicated that as many as four soldiers may have been killed. It said the cause of the crash was unknown.
The chief of the Garmsir district in the southern Helmand province, Mohammad Qayum Gorbaki, said the helicopter was flying to the scene of a suicide bombing in his area when it crashed because of bad weather. He had no further details about the crash.
Mr Gorbaki said four Afghan police officers were killed and seven others were wounded in the suicide attack on the checkpoint.
Two US defence officials in Washington said that four American troops were aboard the helicopter, identified as an Army Black Hawk, and one official said initial word from the scene was that officials “don’t expect” that any of the four survived.
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