The World - News from July 2, 1986
Afghan guerrillas shot down a military transport plane carrying 100 troops, Western diplomats in Pakistan said. They said the four-engine plane was on a flight from Kabul, the capital, to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The diplomats said they had conflicting reports on whether the troops were Afghan or Soviet. There were no reports of survivors, or of what type of weapons were used to down the plane.
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