Three people have died in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul after the Taliban crashed a Black Hawk helicopter left behind by U.S. troops who withdrew from the country in 2021.
The Taliban’s defense ministry confirmed the crash, which happened during a Taliban training exercise, in a statement on Sept. 10.
“An American Black Hawk helicopter, which was flown … for training, crashed due to a technical problem inside the campus of the National Defence [sic] University,” said Ministry of Defense spokesperson Enaytullah Khowrazmi. The spokesperson also confirmed that five people were injured during the crash.
Video footage of the incident was also shared online by Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary and shows the helicopter swirling around in the air above the campus before appearing to lose control and plummeting to the ground as people look on….