A plane leaves the runway to Afghanistan and makes several casualties
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - a military aircraft left the runway of the airport of Lashkargha, in the south of Afghanistan, making several casualties and perhaps deaths, indicated Monday the local authorities.
"It acts of a military aircraft which left the track and has dark in dwellings close to the airport and it wounded several people on board and in the dwellings", the assistant of the governor of the province declared, Mullah Amir Akhund with AFP.
The spokesman of the governor, Muhaidin Khan, indicated that the helps were leaving the "casualties and perhaps died" of the debris
The plane is of manufacture Russian according to Afghan authorities' but it was not possible in the immediate future to determine the identity of its owner.
Cargo plane crashes in Afghanistan, casualties-official
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A cargo plane crashed into houses in a southern Afghan town on Monday, causing casualties, provincial officials said.
The plane crashed while trying to land at an airfield used by U.S.-led troops in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand, Mahaiuddin, administrative chief for the province, told Reuters by telephone from the scene of the crash.
He said the cause of the crash was unclear.
The number of casualties was uncertain, but at least five wounded civilians were pulled from the rubble of their mud homes, Enayatullah Ghafari, a hospital doctor said.
Foreign troops cordoned off the crash site as ambulances took the injured out, Ghafari said.
Defence Secretary John Reid was due on Monday to visit troops stationed in Helmand, which has borne the brunt of growing insurgency by Taliban fighters.
An official who declined to be named said the cargo plane appeared to have been used by counter-narcotic forces employed by the U.S. government.
A U.S. embassy official said he was investigating.
Helmand is the main drug producing region of Afghanistan.