drivers were killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. April 6, 2005 – Three American Halliburton contractors were killed when a military CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in a sandstorm in Ghazni province. Fifteen soldiers also died in the crash. May 9, 2005 – One Myanmar U.N. engineer was killed by a bomb in Kabul. June 7, 2005 – Two Pakistani truck drivers were killed in an ambush in Kandahar province. July 18, 2005 – Two Zimbabwean mine technicians (Fidelis Makwena and Moses Sibanda) were killed by a landmine they were clearing. They were employed by Mine-Tech. August 31, 2005 – A British PMC was captured and executed three days later. November 11, 2005 – Eight crew members of an Il-76 were killed when their plane crashed near Kabul. They included: five Russians, two Ukrainians and one Pakistani. November 18, 2005 – An Indian truck driver Maniappan Raman Kutty was captured in southern Afghanistan. His body was found four days later. He worked for the Border Roads Organisation. 2006 February 7, 2006 – One Indian engineer (Bharat Kumar), one Turkish road engineer (Ufuk Aydin) and a Nepalese PMC were killed by a roadside bomb in Farah province. February 13, 2006 – An American contractor died of natural causes at Bagram airfield. March 10, 2006 – Four Macedonian cleaners were captured and executed; their bodies were found one week later. March 28, 2006 – A South African PMC was killed by a roadside bomb in Farah province. An American contractor, working for KBR, died of natural causes at Bagram airfield. April 3, 2006 – One Turkish road engineer was killed in Nimroz province. April 24, 2006 – Two Ukrainian pilots were killed when their An-26 plane crashed in Helmand province. April 28, 2006 – An Indian telecommunications engineer, K. Suryanarayan, was captured in Zabul province. He was executed two days later. He was worker for Al-Moayed, Bahrain-based company. May 18, 2006 – An American PMC, Ron Zimmerman, who worked for DynCorp International, was killed by a roadside bomb in Herat province. July 23, 2006 – A Canadian carpenter, Mike Frastacky, was shot and killed in Nahrin. July 26, 2006 – Two American contractors were killed when their transport helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan. August 28, 2006 – A Turkish road engineer was killed, and a Turkish PMC was captured in an attack in Helmand province; the PMC was killed 22 days later.