A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation convey was attacked by a suicide bomber Sunday morning in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, the country’s interior ministry said.
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TV footage showed an armoured vehicle from a British convoy on its side as Afghan security forces cordoned off the street in the Joi Sheer neighbourhood.
The MoD said the deaths of the two service personnel in Kabul were not as a result of Taliban action. “Two of their vehicles were damaged and all aboard the vehicles were killed”, he said.
A statement by the alliance said “A coalition helicopter assigned to the Resolute Support Mission crashed due to a non-hostile incident October. 11 at approximately 4:15 p.m.at Camp Resolute Support, Kabul, Afghanistan”.
Durrani said Afghan forces and civilians suffered no casualties. Taliban forces overtook the northern city of Kunduz in late September, in what was seen as a signficant blow to Western-trained soldiers fighting under President Ashraf Ghani.
Najibullah, the Afghan security guard who witnessed the incident, said the helicopter “hit the cable of the security balloon over the base”.
The incident comes the same day a roadside bomb detonated next to a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation convoy as it drove through a residential area near a market in the capital.
Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
On Sunday, there were reports of sporadic clashes between Afghan troops and the Taliban in few parts of Kunduz and major parts of the city appeared to be under control of the government.
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The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make compensation payments for those killed or injured in the strike, adding that U.S. forces in Afghanistan could also pay for repairs to the hospital.
