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Second Hungarian soldier dies in wake of Afghanistan convoy attack
Sep 7, 2010, 12:06 GMT
Budapest - A Hungarian soldier died on Tuesday in a Budapest hospital, two weeks after being seriously injured while serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry announced.
Warrant Officer Gyorgy Kolozsvari had been travelling with a convoy ambushed on August 23 en route from the Hungarian base at Pul-i-Kumri towards the city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.
A female Hungarian soldier died at the scene while Kolozsvari was critically injured and fell into a coma. Following emergency treatment he was brought back to Hungary two days after the attack.
The 37-year-old officer was transferred to intensive care at Budapest's Honved (Army) Hospital, which treated the Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa after he received horrific head injuries during the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Hungary currently has 360 troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of the NATO International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF), according to NATO's website.
Kolozsvari is the fourth Hungarian soldier to have been killed while serving in Afghanistan.
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