Estonian soldier dies in accident

An Estonian non-commissioned officer who sustained heavy injuries in an accident in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on the evening of May 23rd died in hospital in the night.

Sgt. Major Ivar Brok

Sgt. Maj. Ivar Brok, 30, serving in the support unit NSE-5 of the Estonian contingent in Afghanistan, sustained life-threatening injuries in an accident that happened in the course of loading works at the Camp Bastion base, the General Staff here reports. Brok was loading equipment of the infantry platoon ESTCOY-6 onto trucks when a wheel of a Pasi armoured personnel carrier escaped and rolled on him. Such a wheel weighs several hundred kilograms.

Lithuanian soldier, Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius

Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius

Sergeant Arūnas Jarmalavičius, died 22nd May 2008.

Motorized Infantry Battalion of Lithuania.

Aged 34, he was serving with NATO ISAF forces in Ghor province, western Afghanistan.

He and at least two Afghan civilians were killed when hundreds of rock-throwing protesters tried to break into an airfield base in Chaghcharan in protest over an American soldier's use of the Koran for target practice in Iraq. 

Other soldiers, Afghan police and civilians were wounded in the incident. The soldier was killed by gunfire, but it was unclear if the shots came from the crowd, Taliban insurgents or security forces. 

The area is remote and it was impossible for media to independently verify what had happened.

Czech Republic list of military fatalities

Czech Republic military fatalities since 2001.

Date	Name	Rank	Age	Unit	Cause
09-Oct-11	Werner, Adrian	Sergeant	32	2 OLMT	Hostile fire
31-May-11	Vyroubal, Robert	Sergeant	31		Hostile: IED
30-Apr-08	Radim Vaculik	CWO	29	102 Reconnaissance	Hostile: IED
17-Mar-08	Milan Sterba	Lieutenant	35	Special Operations Grp	Hostile: IED
03-May-07	Nikolaj Martynov	Sergeant	28	43rd Airborne	Vehicle accident