An unmanned US surveillance plane crashed on Sunday near the southern air base of Jacobabad that is used by US forces operating in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said. "It was a small unmanned plane which crashed early this morning," local police officer Masroor Jatoi told AFP by telephone.
He said the wreckage was found in bushes near Jacobabad's Shahbaz air base.
"It fell in an unpopulated area and there were no casualties or property losses," Jatoi added.
The airbase is used by the US-led coalition for operations in Afghanistan to crush al Qaeda and Taleban extremists. Pakistan is a key ally in the US led war on terror. In January last year an unmanned US spy plane crashed shortly after taking off from the airbase. In October 2002 a similar US drone went down in a field north of Jacobabad.