Monday, October 12, 2015

Helicopter crash kills two Britons in Afghanistan

Two British Royal Air Force personnel and three others died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Sunday, the defense ministry said in a statement.

The five were killed when the helicopter crashed while landing at the headquarters of the Resolute Support international NATO coalition in the Afghan capital Kabul.

The nationality of the three others who died was not immediately clear.

Five other people were injured.

"The incident is currently under investigation but we can confirm that it was an accident and not the result of insurgent activity," the defense ministry said in a statement.

The two RAF casualties were from the 230 and 33 Squadrons of the Royal Air Force, the statement added.

The deaths bring to 456 the total number of British forces, personnel and defense ministry civilians killed serving in Afghanistan since Britain joined a US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.

In a separate incident earlier on Sunday, a British forces convoy was attacked in central Kabul, wounding civilians but causing no British casualties.

Taliban insurgents have stepped up attacks as Western-trained Afghan forces have largely been fighting on their own since NATO’s combat mission ended in December.
 (AFP)

  i24news.tv
  12/10/15

3 comments :

  1. A military helicopter has crashed at the NATO base in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing five coalition members and injuring five others, authorities have said...

    A statement from the Resolute Support Mission did not give the nationalities of those killed and injured, all of them NATO personnel.

    However, Britain's Ministry of Defense said two Royal Air Force members were among those killed when the Puma Mk 2 helicopter crashed while landing at base, where Afghan security forces are being trained.

    The mission statement said the helicopter "crashed due to a non-hostile incident" around 4.15pm on Sunday at Camp Resolute Support in Kabul.

    In London, the Ministry of Defense also said a convoy of British military vehicles came under attack earlier on Sunday in a separate incident in the capital, but there were no fatalities.

    General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul's police chief, said an explosion targeted a NATO military convoy, wounding three civilians.

    He said the blast targeted two armoured vehicles attached to the NATO Resolute Support mission, damaging one of them. He did not specify whether the vehicles were British..

    While Rahimi and a Taliban spokesman said the convoy was attacked by a suicide car bomber, US Army Colonel Brian Tribus, the spokesman in Afghanistan for US and NATO forces, said it was a roadside bomb.

    The discrepancy could not immediately be reconciled.

    The Interior Ministry said in a statement that the three civilians suffered minor wounds. It said the blast damaged surrounding buildings.

    Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid sent a statement to local media claiming responsibility.................aljazeera.com

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  2. Afghanistan: cinq membres de l'Otan tués dans le crash d'un hélicoptère...

    Cinq membres de l'Otan, dont deux soldats de l'armée de l'air britannique, sont morts dimanche dans le crash accidentel de leur hélicoptère en Afghanistan, ont annoncé les autorités.

    L'hélicoptère s'est écrasé lors de son atterrissage à Kaboul, au quartier général de la coalition de l'Otan, qui apporte un soutien aérien à l'armée afghane.

    "L'incident a provoqué la mort de cinq membres de (l'opération) Soutien résolu et en a blessé cinq autres", indique l'Otan dans un communiqué.

    Convoi britannique attaqué dans le centre de Kaboul

    "Une enquête a été ouverte mais nous pouvons confirmer qu'il s'agit d'un accident et non du résultat d'une attaque d'insurgés", a souligné plus tôt le ministère britannique de la Défense.

    Le décès de deux soldats britanniques portent à 456 le nombre des personnels britanniques morts en Afghanistan depuis que la Grande-Bretagne a participé à l'invasion de l'Afghanistan lancée par les Etats-Unis en octobre 2001................rtbf.be

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  3. L'hélicoptère s'est écrasé lors de son atterrissage à Kaboul, au quartier général de la coalition de l'Otan, qui apporte un soutien aérien à l'armée afghane...

    "L'accident a provoqué la mort de cinq membres de l'opération +Soutien résolu+ et en a blessé cinq autres", a précisé le ministère britannique de la Défense dans un communiqué, cité par l'AFP.

    Les deux soldats britanniques appartenaient aux escadrons de la Royal Air Force. Les nationalités des autres victimes n'ont pas été révélées.

    Selon le communiqué, "une enquête a été ouverte mais nous pouvons confirmer qu'il s'agit d'un accident et non du résultat d'une attaque d'insurgés".

    Cet accident intervient peu après une attaque ayant visé, dimanche, un convoi britannique dans le centre de Kaboul, signe de l'instabilité persistante en Afghanistan, deux semaines après la prise de Kunduz par les talibans.
    http://sptnkne.ws/Ttp

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