Helicopter missing in south Afghanistan

KABUL, Dec 2 (Reuters) A search is under way for a civilian helicopter that went missing in bad weather today while ferrying supplies for foreign forces in southern Afghanistan.

The chartered helicopter was headed from the capital of Kandahar province, Kandahar city, to the neighbouring province of Uruzgan when it went missing, a NATO spokesman said in Kabul.

There were no NATO personnel on board.

No further details were immediately available, including the type of helicopter or the number of people on board.

Fourteen British defence force personnel died when their plane crashed in Kandahar during an anti-Taliban offensive in September.

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