Denmark has lost its first woman soldier in Afghanistan after 22-year-old Private Sophia Bruun was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern Helmand province, the Danish military said Wednesday. The military had said late Tuesday one of its soldiers had died and five had been injured in two separate roadside bomb attacks, but did not reveal their identities or gender.
Bruun was killed on the spot and two other soldiers were slightly injured when one of the bombs exploded just after noon (0730 GMT), striking their vehicle near a patrol base in Bridzar, about six kilometres (four miles) north-east of the town of Gereshk, the military said in a statement.
Four hours later, another three Danish soldiers were wounded by another roadside bomb, also near Bridzar, the Danish military said, adding that one of them was seriously injured. There are 750 Danish troops in Nato's International Security Assistance Force. Most are in Helmand province under British command. Thirty Danish soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since the deployment began. The Scandinavian country of 5.5 million people has suffered more deaths than any other country as a proportion of the number of troops it has in the ISAF. Two other Danish soldiers have died in Afghanistan outside of combat, one of a heart attack. The other committed suicide.
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