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U.S. Navy SEAL killed near Kandahar
CNN Pentagon Correspondent (CNN) -- The U.S. Central Command confirmed on Thursday that a member of U.S. Special Operations was killed and another service member was wounded by an explosion of enemy munitions outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The dead man was a Navy SEAL identified as Chief Petty Officer Matthew J. Bourgeois, 35, from Tallahassee, Florida. Bourgeois was serving as a hospital corpsman. He became the 31st military death in the U.S.-led war on terror. The second victim's identity has not yet been released, but his wounds were not life-threatening, officials Thursday told CNN.
The explosion, at around 11 p.m. EST on Wednesday, was apparently triggered by someone stepping on what officials described as an "enemy ground-placed munition," at a site southeast of Kandahar. Officials say they are not sure if the victims stepped on a land mine or a piece of unexploded ground ordnance. The accident happened at a site where U.S. troops are trained in the removal and neutralization of munitions such as land mines. |
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