Moldova Says Nationals Seized by Taliban After Helicopter Crash

Chisinau: The government in Moldova said today that its nationals were among those captured by the Taliban after their helicopter crash-landed in northern Afghanistan.

"According to information that the Moldovan government has now, there were 21 people on board including three crew members -- two pilots and an engineer, all of them Moldovan nationals," acting prime minister Gheorghe Brega told reporters after an emergency meeting, adding that three of the people on board the helicopter had died.