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| Three Georgian soldiers killed in Afghanistan |
| 2012-02-23 |
| TBILISI: Georgia’s government says three of its servicemen have been killed in Afghanistan. The Defence Ministry said on Wednesday the soldiers died when their vehicle was blown up by Taliban in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province while serving with NATO forces. It didn’t say when the attack occurred. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who visited Georgian troops in Afghanistan earlier this week, praised the three soldiers’ courage and said their deaths are a “heavy blow”. The deaths raised to 15 the number of Georgian soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan since the ex-Soviet nation, a devoted US ally, first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2009. Georgia now has about 900 troops there. Previously, Georgia contributed soldiers to the US-led war in Iraq and to Kosovo. |
| Posted by:Steve White |