KABUL: At least 11 people including six US soldiers were dead when a C-130 military transport plane crashed on Friday in eastern Afghanistan.
The cause of the crash was not immediately cleared, it comes as Afghan forces — backed by NATO special forces and US air support — pushed into the centre of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan to flush out Taliban insurgents who held the provincial capital for three days.
The crash, which occurred at about midnight local time on Friday (1930 GMT Thursday), left six US soldiers and five civilian contractors dead, US Army Colonel Brian Tribus said.
