{"id":3584,"date":"2014-04-27T06:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T06:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2014-04-27T06:11:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T06:11:46","slug":"5-nato-troops-killed-in-afghan-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/27\/3584\/","title":{"rendered":"5 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/helicoptercrash.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Five NATO troops died in a helicopter crash Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led military coalition said, the single deadliest day this year for foreign forces as they prepare to withdraw from the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Taliban claimed to have shot down the helicopter, which an Afghan official said crashed in the southern province of Kandahar.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The coalition said it was investigating the circumstances of the crash but gave no other information in a brief statement. It did not release the nationalities of those killed, citing its policy that home countries should identify their dead.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kandahar provincial police spokesman Zia Durrani said the helicopter went down in the province\u2019s Takhta Pul district in the southeast, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the Pakistani border. He said five international troops were killed but did not know what caused the crash.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Taliban spokesman claimed in a text message to journalists that the insurgents shot down the aircraft.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cToday, the mujahedeen hit the foreign forces\u2019 helicopter with a rocket, and 12 soldiers on board were killed,\u201d Qari Yousef Ahmadi said. The insurgents frequently exaggerate death tolls in their attacks and falsely have claimed responsibility for incidents before.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The deaths bring to seven the number of international troops killed this month. The NATO force is preparing to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan at the end of this year, and it has already turned over the job of fighting the Taliban insurgency to the Afghan army and police.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Violence has increased in Afghanistan ahead of the NATO withdrawal and also in the weeks leading up to the country\u2019s April 5 election. Preliminary results of the vote are due later Saturday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also Saturday, an Afghan university official identified two Americans killed in a shooting at a Kabul hospital earlier this week.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The vice chancellor of Kabul University, Mohammad Hadi Hadayati, named the two as health clinic administrator Jon Gabel and his visiting father, Gary.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hadayati said that Jon Gabel\u2019s wife was wounded in the attack Thursday saw that an Afghan police security guard open fire as the family entered the grounds of Cure International Hospital.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Gabel family was visiting pediatrician Dr. Jerry Umanos of Chicago, who was also killed in the shooting.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hadayati said Jon Gabel ran a clinic at the university providing low-cost medicine and also volunteered to teach computer classes.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He said Gabel worked with U.S. charity Morning Star Development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>PakistanToday<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five NATO troops died in a helicopter crash Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led military coalition said, the single deadliest day this year for foreign forces as they prepare to withdraw from the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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