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Afghan helicopter crash kills 16 | |
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A civilian helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 people, a military official has told the BBC. | |
The helicopter crashed at the Kandahar air field, Nato's largest base in southern Afghanistan, apparently as it was trying to take off. | |
Reports from Moscow say the helicopter was a Russian-built Mi-8. | |
The crash is the second of a helicopter in Afghanistan in a week. Six died in a crash in Helmand province on Tuesday. | |
Russia's Interfax agency quoted a spokesman for Russia's Federal Air Transportation Agency as saying: "An Mi-8 transport helicopter crashed at take-off from an airfield in Kandahar." | |
The nationalities of the dead are not yet known. | |