US spy drone crashes in Pakistan
AFP, Islamabad
An unmanned US surveillance plane crashed yesterday near the southern Pakistani air base of Jacobabad that is used by US forces operating in neiohbouring Afghanistan, police said. "It was a small unmanned plane which crashed early this morning," local police officer Masroor Jatoi told AFP by telephone. He said the wreckage was found in bushes near Jacobabad's Shahbaz air base. "It fell in an unpopulated area and there were no casualties or property losses," Jatoi added. The airbase is used by the US-led coalition for operations in Afghanistan to crush al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists. Pakistan is a key ally in the US led war on terror.
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