KABUL, the military says.
The Mi-17 transport helicopter crashed in the Azra districtof Logar before it caught fire. Some sources said the Taliban had set the chopper on fire after it crashed on Aug. 4 and took the aircraft’s occupants hostage.
Abdul Wali Wakil, a provincial council member and resident of Azra, told Pajhwok Afghan News on Saturday Gen. Sharif’s son-in-law, Major Sardar, was among the detainees. The crewmembers had been seized with hundred thousands of dollars, rupees, weapons, satellite telephones . . .
