Danish soldier killed in Afghanistan

    "A soldier of the Danish Royal Lifeguards has been killed in Afghanistan during a foot patrol in a bazaar area in the Green Zone close to the Sandford Camp near Rahim Qalay in the Gereshk Valley," reported the Danish online newspaper Politiken.

    The soldier of the Royal Lifeguard Mechanized Infantry Company was dead upon arrival at the field hospital at Camp Bastion, said the Politiken.

    "This is a harsh blow to all of us, but particularly for his family. It is with the greatest compassion that we think of them at this difficult time," Brigadier General Peter Harry Lund was quoted by the Politiken as saying.