Helicopter Crash Kills 3 in Kabul During Training Session

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers unload food items and petrol oil from an Afghan Air Force Black Hawk helicopter at the hydroelectric Kajaki Dam in Kajaki, northeast of Helmand Province on March 25, 2021. Wakil Kohsar/AFP via Getty Images

ISLAMABAD—At least three Afghan crew members were killed Saturday when a U.S.–manufactured Black Hawk helicopter they were flying crashed, the Taliban’s defense ministry said.

The statement said that five others were wounded in the accident during a training session overseen by Afghanistan’s defense ministry at the capital of Kabul.