Taliban downed Nato helicopter
03/12/2006 10:25  - (SA)  

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Kandahar - Afghanistan's Taliban rebels on Sunday said they had shot down a Nato-chartered helicopter which went missing in the south of the country.

The civilian helicopter left Kandahar with supplies but no personnel for the Tirin Kot base in Uruzgan province on Saturday, but later lost contact.

A purported Taliban spokesman said the Islamists had downed the helicopter using a rocket fired from the ground.

Yusuf Ahmadi said "religious students" had "shot down the craft with a single rocket".

A spokesperson for Nato's International Security Assistance Force could not confirm or deny the statement.

"Searches are continuing to find the craft. It's not the time to speculate," he said, refusing to say how many people were on board.

"The helicopter could have made an emergency landing because of bad weather, we don't know yet."

Southern Afghanistan has seen the worst of the violence blamed on the Taliban since they were driven from power by a US-led invasion in late 2001.

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