Black Hawk helicopter crashes during Taliban training exercise, killing three

KABUL (Reuters) – A Black Hawk helicopter crashed throughout a Taliban coaching train in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, killing three, the group’s defence ministry stated on Saturday.

“An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown … for coaching, crashed on account of a technical drawback contained in the campus of the Nationwide Defence College,” stated Ministry of Defence spokesperson Enaytullah Khowrazmi, including 5 folks have been additionally injured.

The Taliban took management of some U.S.-made plane after they seized the nation simply over a 12 months in the past. It stays unclear what number of are operational. U.S. forces intentionally broken some navy {hardware} as they left and Afghan forces had flown some helicopters to central Asian nations.

(Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar Writing by Charlotte Greenfield; Enhancing by Mark Potter)