16 dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash: NATO

A helicopter crashed at a military base in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 16 civilians and wounding five others, the NATO-led force said, in the second fatal chopper crash here in a week.

The civilian-contracted aircraft was not shot down by insurgents, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement, but gave no details on what caused the crash in war-torn Kandahar province.

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