PARWAN, May 31 – An unknown number  of the US-Nato troop were killed when Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate shot down one of the enemy helicopter gunships late yesterday night  in northern Afghanistan,  Al-Emarah News said on Sunday.

The initial reports from the site of the attack showed that the helicopter downed by Mujahideen was involved in a mission to bomb out Mujahideen positions during an intense fighting in which Mujahideen had stormed a number of the enemy posts in Kohi Safi district of the province.

Witnesses at the site of the shooting down described seeing the helicopter burst into flames and break into pieces before falling from the sky and crashing.

The shooting down is the latest in a series of recent attacks amid “Operation Azm”, the spring offensives.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.