Video proves Taliban shot down Pakistani helicopter and killed foreign diplomats

Ambassadors for Norway and the Philippines were among the six people who were killed on Friday after their helicopter crashed into a school in northern Pakistan.

The Pakistani terrorist group had come forward to claim responsibility for the tragedy but the army dismissed them as 'opportunistic' and said that cause had been a technical fault.

Now the militant group have released a video of masked fighters holding a rocket launcher in an attempt to prove their claims.

They say their anti-aircraft gun is almost identical to the one they claim they used to shoot down the aircraft.

The footage included a message from the Pakistani Taliban claiming they fired a missile from a distance of 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) to down the helicopter Friday.

'The missile hit the tail rotor,' a written message in Urdu says at the video's start.

Leif H. Larsen, the Norwegian envoy, and Domingo D. Lucenario Jr, of the Philippines, were killed in the crash, along with the wives of the Malaysian and Indonesian ambassadors, as well as the helicopter's two pilots. 

Twelve passengers, many of them diplomats, were injured.

The helicopter, carrying 17 people, fell onto the Naltar Snow School and set the building ablaze, the Express Tribune reported. Officials clarified the school was shut at the time.  

Military officials could not be immediately reached on Sunday but said previously, that technical failure was the cause the crash and dismissed an earlier Taliban claim as opportunistic.

However, the surface-to-air missile shown in the Taliban video appeared to be real.

In the recording, a masked militant discusses the missile's parts, while another portion shows what appears to be a hand-drawn picture of how a missile can strike a helicopter's tail rotor.

The video was released late Saturday via militant websites and corresponded to other messages distributed by the Pakistani Taliban. 

(dailymail.co.uk)