The World - News from Sept. 18, 1985
One of the major Afghan guerrilla groups claimed to have shot down a helicopter gunship carrying an Afghan major general and a brigadier plus a Soviet officer believed to have been a general. According to the Hezbi-i-Islami rebels, all eight men aboard the MI-24 copter were killed when it crashed in Paktia province. Meanwhile, Western diplomats reported intensified fighting between the guerrillas and Soviet-backed troops in the city of Kandahar.
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