Probe into crash which killed seven peacekeepers

GERMAN military aviation experts arrived in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday to investigate the cause of a helicopter crash which killed all seven German peacekeepers on board.

A spokesman for the 4,800-strong multi-national peacekeeping force said two Afghan children earlier reported killed in Saturday’s crash in eastern Kabul were confirmed alive.

The crash came the same day as unidentified attackers killed a United States soldier in a firefight on the eastern border with Pakistan, the first US combat death in Afghanistan since August.