Eleven killed in the crash of a military helicopter in Afghanistan

The Fall of a Black Hawk helicopter in the province of Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold, ended Thursday with 11 victims, including seven U.S. soldiers, which is the worst air indidente for U.S. troops in Afghanistan so far this year . The Taliban guerrillas claimed responsibility for the attack, something that several spokesmen NATO command in that country have questioned, saying only that they have opened an investigation into the incident. As confirmed by a spokesman for the International Security Force in Afghanistan from NATO, Brigadier General Gunter Katz, among the dead were seven American soldiers, three members of the National Security Force in Afghanistan and an interpreter, civil. In April the other Black Hawk accident had resulted in the deaths of four U.S. soldiers in another stronghold of the insurgency in Helmand province. "No one has survived," a spokesman said Thursday the guerrila Taliban, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the Associated Press, making sure the helicopter crash was due to an attack by insurgents. The Black Hawk UH-60 model, fell in the district of Shah Wali Kot, north of the province, as confirmed by local authorities to NATO forces. They could not clarify whether the fall was accidental or work of an attack. In August last year, and Taliban guerrillas shot down a U.S. helicopter Chinhook , killing 30 U.S. soldiers (including 20 Navy SEALS, the elite team that wiped out Osama bin Laden), seven Afghans and an interpreter. That attack came under the start of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, within which will withdraw 30,000 troops this year. It is expected that U.S. troops have left the country before the end of 2014. The accident occurred Thursday less than a week later that killed six U.S. soldiers were killed by soldiers in Afghanistan in several separate incidents, a series of attacks that highlighted the extent of insurgent infiltration between the national security forces that country. The military helicopter accidents are not uncommon in Afghanistan.Many times problems are caused by technical or human error. In other, less attacks by the insurgents, who often use surface to air missiles.Particularly vulnerable to these attacks are Chinhook helicopters, a model of tandem rotors the U.S. military began using in 1962. In March, a Turkish helicopter crashed into a house on the outskirts of Kabul, the Afghan capital, in an accident that killed 12 Turkish soldiers and two civilians. That was the worst incident against Turkish troops in the 11 years of a military operation to that country providing more than 1,800 soldiers