The web-site of Press TV, Iran’s television network, ran this story last week: Ruhollah Samon, a Paktia provincial government spokesman in eastern Afghanistan, confirmed that the US surveillance UAS had crashed in the Zurmat district. According to the report, wreckage of the drone has not been found and the Afghan police have sent investigation teams to the area to search for it.
The Afghan official further noted that neither the coalition forces nor the Taliban have yet commented on the accident. Afghanistan’s Paktia province is located near Pakistan’s North Waziristan region which is frequently targeted by US pilotless planes. Most UAS operate near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan or inside Pakistan’s tribal belt.
Several American UAS have either crashed or been shot down by Taliban militants in Afghanistan since the beginning of the war in 2001.
Press TV is Iran’s television network, broadcasting in round the clock in English, is based in Tehran
Source: Press TV