Jacobabad (Pakistan): An unmanned US spy plane crashed on October 17 near a US airbase in Pakistan's Southern Sindh province, a Pakistan Air Force spokesman said.

"The information I have so far is that an unmanned US surveillance plane has crashed near the Shahbaz airbase" outside Jacobabad, Air Commodore Qadeer Ahmed said.

A police official, declining to be identified, said the plane crashed early on October 17.

A local reporter visited the crash site in a field North of the city and saw the wreckage.

He said that he saw both Pakistani and US military officials collecting and removing the debris.

There was no loss of life to the 1,00,000 inhabitants around Jacobabad, which lies 280 kms (173 miles) from the border with Afghanistan in the North of Sindh province.

The US Embassy was unable to confirm the crash.

The Shahbaz airbase is used exclusively by the US-led coalition troops for operations in Afghanistan.

AFP