NATO Drone Helicopter Lost

The BBC reports:

Nato has lost an unmanned helicopter drone involved in the Libyan campaign, a Nato spokesman has said.

Wing Cmdr Mike Bracken said Nato's command centre in Naples had lost contact with the aircraft at 0720 GMT.

The helicopter was carrying out reconnaissance over Libya "to monitor [leader Muammar] Gaddafi's forces threatening the civilian population", he said.

Wing Cmdr Bracken said no attack helicopters had been lost.