Five U.S. soldiers were killed yesterday in a plane crash in south-eastern province of Helmand, where a Chinook helicopter crashed , probably because it hit by a missile. This was confirmed in the evening, military sources in Washington, stating that the first investigations it seems that the 'helicopter was shot down. The Taliban were immediately attributed the 'slaughter of the helicopter carrying the ISAF contingent. According to their spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi: The Chinook was "engulfed in flames in the sky" and "crashed to the ground." The south of 'Afghanistan in the last sixteen months has been the scene of violent clashes that have caused a total of five thousand dead. In violence across the country have increased from 'beginning of spring.
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