An Afghan official says a helicopter with reinforcements responding to a Taliban attack in the north-eastern province of Nuristan crashed, injuring nine.
Mohammed Zareen, a spokesman for the Nuristan government, said the Afghan Defence Ministry helicopter was one of four ferrying a unit of the National Intelligence Service’s rapid reaction force. It crashed when it hit a tree about 300 yards (meters) from the building housing governor Jamalludin Badar.
The unit was sent to bolster police who on Tuesday managed to stop a large—scale assault by about 400 Taliban against four outposts south of Parun. Security forces in the area remained on high alert, the official said.
