27 April 2013 Last updated at 12:52 ET
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A plane has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing four people working for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).
A spokesman said the cause of the crash was being investigated, but initial reports suggested there was no militant activity in the area at the time.
It is not clear if those killed were military personnel or civilians. Their nationalities have not been released.
Meanwhile, there have been reports of fierce fighting in the country's north.
Details are still unclear, but insurgents are understood to have taken control of several villages in Qaisar district, in Faryab Province.
A spokesman for the provincial governor, Jawed Baidar, told the BBC that more than 60 insurgents had been killed. Women and children are also thought to have been among the casualties.
Faryab has generally had the reputation as a relatively peaceful part of Afghanistan, despite a high-profile suicide bombing at a mosque in the provincial capital Maymana that left at least 41 people dead.
Continue reading the main story
A plane has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing four people working for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf).
A spokesman said the cause of the crash was being investigated, but initial reports suggested there was no militant activity in the area at the time.
It is not clear if those killed were military personnel or civilians. Their nationalities have not been released.
Meanwhile, there have been reports of fierce fighting in the country's north.
Details are still unclear, but insurgents are understood to have taken control of several villages in Qaisar district, in Faryab Province.
A spokesman for the provincial governor, Jawed Baidar, told the BBC that more than 60 insurgents had been killed. Women and children are also thought to have been among the casualties.
Faryab has generally had the reputation as a relatively peaceful part of Afghanistan, despite a high-profile suicide bombing at a mosque in the provincial capital Maymana that left at least 41 people dead.