Afghan official says military helicopter crashes
An Afghan official says a helicopter with reinforcements responding to a Taliban attack in the northeastern province of Nuristan crashed, injuring nine.
Mohammed Zareen, a spokesman for the Nuristan government, said the Afghan Defense Ministry helicopter was one of four ferrying a unit of the National Intelligence Service's rapid reaction force. It crashed when it hit a tree about 300 yards (meters) from the building housing governor Jamalludin Badar. (AP)
