5 coalition service members dead in Afghan copter crash
By Joe Sterling and Qadir Sediqi, CNN
updated 7:23 AM EDT, Sat April 26, 2014
(CNN) -- Five coalition service members died Saturday in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
The nationalities of the five were not immediately known. ISAF's policy is to "defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities."
The incident occurred in the Takhtapul district of Kandahar province, according to Kandahar police chief Zia Durani
ISAF said an investigation is under way to determine more facts, but Durani said there is no evidence of insurgent activities and it appears the crash happened because of technical problems.
This comes amid a series of deadly attacks in the turbulent country. On Thursday, an American doctor and two others were shot by a policeman guarding a hospital in the capital, Kabul.
In December, a helicopter crash resulted in the deaths of six ISAF members -- all Americans.
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