Helicopter crash kills 26 soldiers in Orakzai
Saturday, July 4, 2009
The News International, Pakistan, Saturday, July 04, 2009
PESHAWAR/KALAYA: Twenty-six soldiers, including an officer, were killed and six others seriously injured when a helicopter carrying them from Parachinar to Peshawar crashed near the Ferozkhel area in the Taliban-controlled Orakzai Agency on Friday.
The Darra Adamkhel-based Taliban militants led by commander Tariq Afridi claimed responsibility for shooting down the military chopper and said their fighters later killed most of the injured soldiers when the chopper crashed in the mountains.
Pakistan Army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas, when reached by telephone, said the MI-17 military chopper crashed due to a technical fault. He rejected the militants’ claim of shooting the chopper down.
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PESHAWAR/KALAYA: Twenty-six soldiers, including an officer, were killed and six others seriously injured when a helicopter carrying them from Parachinar to Peshawar crashed near the Ferozkhel area in the Taliban-controlled Orakzai Agency on Friday.
The Darra Adamkhel-based Taliban militants led by commander Tariq Afridi claimed responsibility for shooting down the military chopper and said their fighters later killed most of the injured soldiers when the chopper crashed in the mountains.
Pakistan Army spokesman Maj-Gen Athar Abbas, when reached by telephone, said the MI-17 military chopper crashed due to a technical fault. He rejected the militants’ claim of shooting the chopper down.
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Labels: Helicopter Crash, Orakzai Agency, War on Terror
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