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4 NATO Troops Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash

   VOA News 21 June 2010

   NATO says four international service members have died in a helicopter
   crash in southern Afghanistan. Â
   A NATO statement says there are no indications of enemy involvement in
   Monday's crash.
   Three  of the dead soldiers were Australian.  The fourth was from the
   United States.  Â
   The  Associated  Press  said  seven  Australians  were  injured in the
   accident.
   On  Monday  Britain  announced  its  300th  fatality  in the nine-year
   Afghanistan  war.   The Royal Marine was hurt June 12 in an explosion
   in  southern  Helmand  province.   He  died  Sunday  in a hospital in
   England.
   In  other  developments  in southern Afghanistan Monday, NATO says two
   international  service  members  were  killed  in  two  separate  bomb
   explosions.  NATO did not release their nationalities.

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