U.S. soldier, two Afghan soldiers killed. K AB U L,

» The U.S. military said Saturday that a service member has been killed in Afghanistan, while in a separate incident two Afghan soldiers died when their helicopter failed to land properly.

The brief U.S. military statement did not provide further details on the soldier’s identity or the time or place of death.

The two Afghan soldiers died Saturday when their helicopter made an emergency landing in the Kandahar province because of a technical problem, Defense Ministry spokesman Ghafor Ahmad Jawad said. He said two other soldiers were wounded when the helicopter caught fire after landing. The Taliban claim to have shot the helicopter down.

In the capital, Kabul, a senior religious scholar was shot and killed, said Basir Mujahid, a spokesman for the capital’s police chief. No one immediately claimed the killing of Abdul Basir Haqqani, but police arrested a man with a pistol near the scene of the shooting, Mujahid said. his son, Nicolas Roeg Jr., told Britain’s Press Association.

Roeg worked with Jagger in “Performance” and Bowie in “The Man Who Fell to Earth.” Bowie played an alien who crashes on Earth looking for a way to save his own planet.

Roeg’s “Don’t Look Now” in 1973 is regarded as one of his most outstanding successes. It is also remembered for the realistic sex scene between stars Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland.

Roeg’s last major film was “The Witches,” in 1990, which starred Anjelica Huston.