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Helicopter crash in southern Iraq kills sevel U.S troops

Chinook transport helicopter crash in southern Iraq killed seven U.S troops on Thursday.

Mechanical failure was the apparent cause of the crash of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter just after midnight.
There were total seven personnel aboard.

The helicopter was part of an aerial convoy flying from neighboring Kuwait to the Balad U.S. military air base in Iraq.

The crash took place about 100 km (60 miles) west of the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

A rapid reaction force was dispatched from Basra, Iraq's second largest city, the military said, while a road convoy in the area was also diverted to the scene.

The U.S. military in Iraq mostly uses Apache attack helicopters as well as Black Hawks, which are usually deployed to transport small numbers of soldiers around the country.

The U.S. military said 69 helicopters have crashed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. The Brookings Institution's Iraq Index says 36 of those were due to enemy fire.

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