As many as 55 Americans have been killed and 37 terribly injured with their three Chinook-like helicopters shot down in clashes with Taliban in Helmand’s Nowzad district through much of Monday, Taliban officials said.
According to the details, the deadly battle erupted as about hundreds of American soldiers, airdropped by some 20 helicopters into the different areas of Nowzad district, wanting to carry out a large scale operation in the area, came under simultaneous attacks by Taliban from every directions that caused a daylong face-to-face fighting which started on Monday afternoon and continued till late night hours, in which the enemy, after suffering deadliest losses and severest damages, fled the areas carrying the engines of the helicopters shot down by Taliban during the fighting along with them, while the wreckage of the struck helicopters including their wings and other parts of the helicopters and the mutilated parts of the bodies of the American soldiers still exist at the sites. while Taliban have taken the abondoned arms and ammo. Jahidic officials say it is the first operation which has been so much perfect and successful since the invasion of US cowardly troops in 2001, and one of the luckiest operations since the operation al-Fath ( The Victory) commenced throughout the country.
Source: agencies