Insurgents hit NATO helicopter with rocket

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents fired a rocket that hit a NATO helicopter carrying the governor of a key southern Afghan province Saturday, but no one was injured, officials said.

A series of clashes, airstrikes and bomb blasts elsewhere in the country killed 10 militants and four civilians.

Helmand Gov. Ghulab Mangal and a delegation of British officials were about to land in the provincial town of Musa Qala when an insurgent rocket-propelled grenade struck the helicopter, Mangal said.

The pilots managed to land the CH-47 Chinook helicopter at a nearby NATO base, Mangal told The Associated Press.

No one was injured in the attack, though the helicopter was damaged.