KABUL, Jan 28 — Afghan forces and Taliban fighters clashed in a central region where a US military aircraft crashed, officials said today, as the government tried to reach the wreckage site in a Taliban stronghold. Yesterday, the US military said an E-11A aircraft crashed in the province of...
Taliban fighters have made it difficult to access the area near the crash. — Reuters pic
Security forces were sent to the site immediately after receiving a report of the crash in the Deh Yak district, but were ambushed by Taliban fighters, Ghazni provincial police chief Khalid Wardak told Reuters. The attempt was repelled, however, he told Reuters, but added that the Taliban would allow a rescue team access to recover bodies from the crash site.
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