The Defense Ministry says one Romanian soldier was killed and three others were wounded in Afghanistan when the vehicles in which they were riding came under attack, according to AP. The ministry says the soldiers were on patrol Friday on the highway between Kabul and Qalat, a town near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The ministry says they were about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Qalat when they were attacked with grenades, and two vehicles were hit. The dead soldier was identified as 29-year-old Claudiu Marius Covrig, who was on his first mission to Afghanistan. There are 644 Romanian troops deployed in Afghanistan. Six Romanian soldiers have died and 23 have been wounded since the country first sent troops in 2002.
