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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Deadly blast on US chopper in Afghanistan AFP - Wednesday, October 13 Send IM Story Print Deadly blast on US chopper in Afghanistan KABUL (AFP) - – An explosion on board a US helicopter on Tuesday killed one person and wounded eight more after it landed at a military outpost in eastern Afghanistan, a key flashpoint in the country's nine-year war. The US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the cause of the blast on the aircraft carrying NATO troops was under investigation, while the Taliban claimed its fighters shot down the helicopter. An AFP correspondent in Kunar province said he saw three helicopters flying over the Ghash area of Marawar district and then heard the sound of rocket fire, after which two helicopters flew off and a gunbattle broke out. ISAF said eight people were wounded, including NATO troops, and one person killed in the incident. There were 26 people on board the helicopter, which an ISAF spokesman identified as a US Chinook. Eastern Afghanistan is one of the most volatile parts of the country, where Taliban and other Islamist insurgents have carved out strongholds. It lies just across the border from Pakistan, where militant groups have rear bases. The interior ministry said separately that six civilians, including a woman and two children, were killed Tuesday when insurgents fired a rocket into the Ghibi Khil area of southeastern province Paktika. The war is now in its deadliest year so far. Around 152,000 foreign troops under US and NATO command are fighting a Taliban insurgency that has steadily expanded since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down their regime. NATO and US troops rely heavily on helicopters for transporting troops and supplies across the country, where convoys travelling on largely poor roads are liable to be attacked by insurgents. While helicopter accidents are not uncommon, the Taliban have attacked NATO air assets in the past and militia spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed that the insurgent group had shot down the helicopter on Tuesday. On June 9, Taliban militants killed four US troops when they shot down a helicopter in Helmand province -- one of the militia's primary strongholds in southern Afghanistan, where much of the US-led battle is concentrated. Meanwhile a NATO soldier died on Tuesday in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, the military said, but as a matter of policy ISAF no longer discloses the nationalities of troops killed in combat. The death took to 576 the number of foreign troops killed in 2010, according to an AFP toll based on the independent website icasualties.org. The conflict has killed more than 2,140 international soldiers since the 2001 invasion replaced the Taliban with a Western-backed administration. On Tuesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the number of wounded being treated at the main hospital in Kandahar, in the heart of the conflict-torn south, has soared to a record high. Thousands of NATO and Afghan troops are fighting to control Kandahar city in Operation Dragon Strike. As the Taliban's spiritual capital and the largest city in the south, the fate of Kandahar is considered crucial to a US-led campaign to beat back the Taliban as quickly as possible and restore confidence in the Afghan government. About 1,000 patients with weapon-related injuries were registered at the Mirwais Regional Hospital in August and September 2010, almost twice as many as the same period last year, the ICRC said. "Our greatest challenge consists in maintaining access to the areas hardest hit by the fighting, but the increase in the number of armed groups is making this much harder for us," said Reto Stocker, the ICRC head in Kabul. Western public opinion is growing increasingly tired of the war, angry over corruption within President Hamid Karzai's government and mounting casualties as the conflict pushes into its 10th year. In Italy, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Rome would start withdrawing its troops next year, making the comments in an interview published on the same day as a funeral for four Italian soldiers killed in the war. "The timing is beginning to be defined: summer 2011 for the beginning of a gradual withdrawal to be completed in 2014," he told La Repubblica newspaper. Italy is the fifth largest contributor of foreign troops in Afghanistan, deploying around 3,400 troops on the ground. 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