Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The military has confirmed that eight soldiers killed in Afghanistan
yesterday were based at Fort Lewis. KUOW’s Liz Jones reports.
Reports from Afghanistan Tuesday revealed that roadside bombs hit
two Army vehicles in the southern part of the country. Today, Fort
Lewis officials confirmed the soldiers were part of a Stryker
Brigade from the Tacoma base.
Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Piek says the soldiers were killed in two
separate attacks.
Piek: “Seven soldiers were killed when enemy forced attacked
their unit with an improvised explosive device. And in a separate
incident, another soldier was killed, in a completely separate,
unrelated attack. And so that’s eight soldiers that were lost from
the 5th Stryker Brigade yesterday.”
This brigade has been in Afghanistan since July. These casualties
confirmed today bring the unit’s official death toll to 26.
The military has not released the soldiers names yet.
October has now become deadliest month for American forces in
Afghanistan, since the war started eight years ago.
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