Five US Troops Killed In Helicopter Crash, Officials Say

Five U.S. service members died Monday when a helicopter crashed in the Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

The cause of the crash was under investigation, but a statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said "there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the incident."

The names and nationalities of the troops killed had not been released by U.S. officials early Tuesday, but an Afghan government official in Kandahar, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that all of those killed were American.
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