By Courtney Kube, Pentagon Producer, NBC News
Four American service members were killed Saturday in an airplane crash in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. military official said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, but the International Security Assistance Force said in a brief statement that initial reports indicated the crash did not involve enemy activity.
The province's police chief told Reuters that bad weather caused the crash in Zabul province in the district of Shahjoi. A U.S. diplomat was killed along with several other Americans in a bomb blast in Zabul province earlier this month.
The ISAF, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan, declined to identify the nationalities of those killed Saturday. But the U.S. military official said that all four were Americans.
The ISAF did not say what kind of airplane was involved.
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Four American service members were killed Saturday in an airplane crash in southern Afghanistan, a U.S. military official said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, but the International Security Assistance Force said in a brief statement that initial reports indicated the crash did not involve enemy activity.
The province's police chief told Reuters that bad weather caused the crash in Zabul province in the district of Shahjoi. A U.S. diplomat was killed along with several other Americans in a bomb blast in Zabul province earlier this month.
The ISAF, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan, declined to identify the nationalities of those killed Saturday. But the U.S. military official said that all four were Americans.
The ISAF did not say what kind of airplane was involved.
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