US recovers bodies of copter crew
An American high-altitude recovery team has retrieved the bodies of seven people from a Red Cross-chartered helicopter that crashed high in the Afghan mountains in January, US officials said.
The Russian-made Mi-8 transport chopper disappeared after taking off from Pakistan, where it had been chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross to ferry supplies to victims of a devastating earthquake in Pakistan in October.
The seven on board were all nationals of Turkmenistan. The Red Cross has said none was staff. Lt. Col. Drew Kosmowski, a doctor who went on the five-hour recovery mission on Saturday, said four of the seven were doctors, while three were helicopter crew.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Nomadic shepherds spotted the wreckage about 500 feet below a mountain peak in Kapisa province, about 35 miles north of Kabul, on June 1.
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