Police in Uruzgan were dispatched into the ShahWaliKot district of Kandahar province, where police and militants battled for several hours, Hemat said.
The Black Hawk helicopter crashed at about 10 a.m. in the ShahWaliKot district in Kandahar, a hotbed of the insurgency, Afghan and Western officials said.
In a separate incident on Monday, officials say that insurgents were foiled as they tried to storm a joint Afghan-Nato base in the ShahWaliKot district of Kandahar.