Guwahati News Desk: At least nine Afghan military personnel were killed on Thursday after a helicopter crash overnight in a central province.
The defence ministry in a statement said that four crew members of the MI-17 helicopter along with five security personnel were killed in the crash, in the Behsud district of Maidan Wradak province. It gave no further detail except to say that investigation were ongoing.
Meanwhile on Thursday in a separate bombing incident killed four state employees commuting in a minibus in the capital Kabul.
A spokesman for the Kabul police chief, Ferdaws Faramarz, said a woman was among the dead and nine other people were wounded in the attack in the city’s north.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the Kabul attack.