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Liputan6.com, Kabul: Taliban guerrillas who were fighting against Afghan and NATO forces claimed responsibility for firing a NATO helicopter to fall in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan, Monday morning

local time (29 / 3). Taliban spokesperson, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, who spoke by telephone to reporters said the guerrillas had shot an army helicopter crashed in NATO until Adghar District, Zabul province.

International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) NATO leaders at a press conference to confirm that one ISAF helicopter unit fell today in Zabul province, southern Afghanistan. Press statement also revealed that there was no casualties in the incident, and all personnel in the helicopter had been evacuated to ISAF medical treatment facility near the scene.

But ISAF rule out the involvement of the Taliban over the fall of the helicopter. "There is no indication that the helicopter gunship was shot down by the enemy," he said. Meanwhile, Deputy Chief of Police of Zabul province, Jilani Khan Farahi, said the chopper went down in the district Adghar on Monday morning due to technical problems, and no casualties. NATO's crash is the third in the last week. Previously, two choppers crashed in the province of Wardak and Kunduz are turbulent. (Ant / Jb)