- publish: 21 February 2016
- time: 10:10 am
- category: Security&Crime
- No: 3410
US drone crashes in Southern Kandahar province
The U.S. Air Force says that one of its drones has crashed at a base in southern Afghanistan but there were no casualties and no hostile fire is suspected.
In a statement, Capt. Bryan L. Bouchard says the MQ-9 Reaper went down at Kandahar Airfield late Saturday. AP reported.
He says the cause is under investigation “but hostile fire was not a factor.”
Kandahar Airfield, the largest base in Afghanistan, is being renovated by the U.S.-NATO mission for mixed military and civilian use.