A US cargo plane has crashed after taking off from an airbase in
Kyrgyzstan, local reports say.
The tanker aircraft had left the US Manas airbase
near the capital Bishkek, officials told AFP.
The emergency situations ministry said the plane
had broken into three pieces but information about casualties has yet to be
released, reports the BBC.
Seven crew members died when a US civilian cargo
plane crashed at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan on Monday.
Witnesses of the Kyrgyzstan crash told local media
that they heard a boom and saw an explosion.
The transport plane was carrying a cargo of fuel
when it disappeared off the radar near the mountain village of Chaldybar, close
to the border with Kazakhstan, Reuters reported.
The US military uses the Manas airbase to maintain
its operations in Afghanistan.
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