The Pentagon has acknowledged the death of its soldiers in the crash of a C-130 in Afghanistan – RBC

American military transport C-130 aircraft. Archival photo

Photo: REUTERS 2015

As reported, NBC, citing a source in the Defense Ministry, in a plane crash C-130 Air Force US near the Afghan city of Jalalabad killed 14 people. It is known that among the dead were six American servicemen.

The rest of the dead – the people of Afghanistan. Five of them – civilian contractors who worked with the NATO mission to train Afghan security forces under the name «Resolute Suppor», which operates in the country since 2014.

The other three victims – the people who were on the ground at the moment the crash.

According to NBC, accurate data on the causes of the accident yet. The Pentagon assured that the machine has not been knocked down.

In the past few days, NATO forces took part in the liberation of the Taliban captured the Afghan city of Kunduz. Reuters referring to its sources reported on participation in the operation of US Special Forces soldiers. Afghan security forces on October 1 announced that recaptured the city the “Taliban”. In doing so, the Taliban denied this information, saying that they still retain much of Kunduz.

The military operation of NATO forces in Afghanistan, continued in 2001. Officially, the process of withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan started in 2011. In October last year it was reported that the US military and the British left their last base – Camp Bastion and Camp Leathernec – in Afghanistan, placing them under the control of local authorities. Later, however, the United States agreed to leave the nearly 10 thousand. Soldiers in the country until the end of the year.