A Nato helicopter searching for an Afghan jet that disappeared during a snowstorm with 104 people aboard, found what appears to be the wreckage of the plane today in the forbidding mountains east of the capital, officials said.

Snow clouds closed over Kabul early today, complicating plans for Nato and government forces to resume their search for a passenger jet carrying 104 people, including about 21 foreigners, after it disappeared near the mountain-ringed Afghan capital.

A senior Afghan militia commander alleged today that troops from Afghanistan’s US-trained national army beheaded four Taliban fighters to avenge the similar slaying of an Afghan soldier and a military interpreter.