KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said Monday they had found the wreckage of a crashed helicopter in southern Helmand province as well as indications two other helicopters had come in to try to remove it.``Yesterday, a crashed helicopter was found in the Registan area of Helmand province on the border with (Pakistan's) Baluchistan,'' Education Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi told Reuters.
``It is most probably an American one. Two more helicopters had come to take away the crashed one, but due to firing they could not land and escaped,'' he said. ``We don't know more details and how many people were on board or about their fate now.''
Around nearby southern Kandahar city, the Taliban had found
tires and small pieces of a helicopter hit in a U.S. ground raid Friday night, he said.
The claims could not be independently verified, and contradicted U.S. accounts of the raid