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Summary A drone operated by US military forces has reportedly crashed in Afghanistan's Balkh area.
The unmanned aerial vehicle went down in the suburbs of Balkh, 324 kilometres north of Kabul, on Monday, a news agency quoted provincial officials as saying.However, local residents claimed that two US reconnaissance aircraft have crashed in the area, and Taliban militants have retrieved the wreckage of the drones.The US military has not commented on the cause of the crash, which marks the third US unmanned plane going down in Afghanistan this week. Taliban militants claimed on Sunday that they had shot down an unmanned US reconnaissance drone in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.On Saturday, an American drone crashed due to “technical faults” during a reconnaissance mission in Ghazni province in central Afghanistan, according to a statement released by the media office of the US-led NATO forces.The Taliban militants claim they have shot down several aircraft and NATO choppers in different parts of Afghanistan over the past few months.
