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Italian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

40th Italian Casualty in Afghanistan
40th Italian Casualty in Afghanistan

Folgore brigade combat engineer Roberto Marchini, 28, killed while attempting to defuse improvised explosive device.

An Italian soldier was killed in Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the district of Bakwa in the west of the country, part of the Italian zone. The deceased soldier was Corporal Roberto Marchini, 28, from Caprarola in the province of Viterbo, a combat engineer from the Legnano-based eighth Folgore parachute regiment. Corporal Marchini had just left his vehicle and was attempting to defuse the device when it exploded. The ministry of defence said that he had been on a reconnoitring patrol with Afghan troops.

On 2 July, another Italian soldier, Corporal Gaetano Tuccillo, 29, died not far from the village of Chagas, 16 kilometres west of Bakwa.

40th Italian Casualty in Afghanistan

Corporal Marchini is the 40th Italian soldier or intelligence agent to die in Afghanistan since the start of the mission, which involves a contingent of roughly 4,200 troops. The Italians, most of whom are deployed in the west of the country, are part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Defence minister Ignazio La Russa offered “profound condolences” for the death of Corporal Marchini.

Berlusconi : ”Delayed for AC Milan meeting by Italian soldier’s death in Afghanistan”

Meanwhile AC Milan announced that prime minister Silvio Berlusconi would not be present at the club’s pre-season meeting at the Milanello training ground because he had been “delayed in Rome by our soldier’s death in Afghanistan”.

 

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