A helicopter carrying three U.S. senators made an emergency landing in Afghanistan on Thursday, but no one was hurt, a TV report said.
Citing military and congressional sources, CNN said the military helicopter with U.S. senators -- Joseph Biden of Delaware, John Kerry of Massachusetts and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska -- on board was forced to land in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.
According to Kerry's spokesman David Wade, the senators returned to Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base in a ground convoy and then left for Turkey.
"After several hours, the senators were evacuated by American troops and returned overland to Bagram Air Base, and left for their next scheduled stop in Ankara, Turkey," Kerry said in a statement.
Biden, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and two other senators were in Pakistan to observe Monday's parliamentary elections.
Source: Xinhua
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