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Dutch troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash - by Jenny Booth
A civilian helicopter has crashed in rugged mountain terrain in southeastern Afghanistan killing all 16 people aboard, including two Dutch soldiers. Colonel Tom Collins, a spokesman for US-led coalition forces, said that foreign troops had secured the crash scene and 12 bodies had so far been recovered.The Dutch Defence Ministry said that the two Dutch victims, a lieutenant colonel and a sergeant, were International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) soldiers on a mission to observe the security system at a military camp, to see whether it was adaptable to a camp that Dutch forces are constructing in the southeastern province of Uruzgan.
A Taleban spokesman claimed that militants had shot down the helicopter.
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