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| Pakistan Army Mi-17 (Image: Wiki Commons) |
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A Pakistani helicopter on Thursday crash-landed in Afghanistan's Logar province where Taliban militants held its seven crew members hostage, local media reported.
Samaa News said the helicopter was on its way to Uzbekistan for overhauling when it likely met some technical faults and its pilot had to land it in the Logar province, bordering Pakistan's northwest tribal area of Kurram Agency.
The chopper, with seven people on board including two Pakistani pilots, four technicians and a Russian navigator, took off from Pakistan's northwest Peshawar city's airport at 8:45 this morning (local time).
All seven people have been held hostage by the Taliban who also set the chopper on fire.
Read the full story at Xinhua