Cargo plan chartered by foreign troops crashes in Afghanistan -

The plane was not an aircraft belonging to the NATO-led International Security
Assistance Force, a spokesman for the force said.

Abdul Baseer Salangi, the provincial governor of Parwan, said a cargo aircraft
chartered by foreign troops had crashed in a mountainous area of Siagerd
district. A rescue team had been dispatched to the remote site, he said.

"There was a big explosion when the aircraft hit the mountains late last
night," Abdul Haleem, the district chief of Siagerd, said.

In October, a civilian cargo transport plane crashed into mountains near the
Afghan capital Kabul, killing eight people on board -- six Filipinos, one
Indian national and a Kenyan.