UN Norwegian officer, Lt. Colonel Siri Skare

Lt. Col. Skare

Norwegian Lt. Col. Siri Skare, aged 53, was killed in an afternoon attack on the United Nations office in Mazar-e-Sharif on 1st April 2011. 

Lt. Col. Skare was Norway's first female military pilot and the country's first female officer to be killed in service in Afghanistan.

Skare, who finished her training as a pilot in 1983, had been working as a military adviser for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) since August of last year. Those assigned to the UN are unarmed and work to provide aid and development assistance to civilians in Afghanistan.

The attack also claimed the lives of four Nepalese Gurkha guards, along with two other foreign UN workers, Joakim Dungel from Sweden and Filaret Motco from Romania. 

The previous day, but on a different continent, UN aid worker, Zahra Abidi was killed in Ivory Coast, Africa.

NORWAY Military Fatalities - full list

NORWAY

This is the full list of Norwegian military fatalities since 2002

Date	Name	Rank	Age	Unit	Cause
01-Apr-11	Skare, Siri	Lt. Col	53
27-Jun-10	Eldjarn, Andreas	Navy PO	21	Coastal Rangers	IED attack
27-Jun-10	Tokle, Simen	Lieutenant	24	Coastal Rangers	IED attack
27-Jun-10	Bolle, Trond Andre	Lt Cmdr	41	Naval Command	IED attack
27-Jun-10	Lian,Christian	Lieutenant	31	Coastal Rangers	IED attack
25-Jan-10	Olsson, Joachim Claes	Grenader	22	Telemark Battalion	IED attack
17-Apr-09	Kolset, Trond Petter	Captain	30	Intelligence Service	Suicide bomb
08-Nov-08	Jørgensen, Kristoffer Sørli	Private	22	Home Guard	IED attack
23-Jul-07	Lau-Henriksen, Tor Arne	Lieutenant	33	Norwegian Army	Hostile fire
23-May-04	Roedningsby, Tommy	Grenadier	29	Norwegian Army	RPG attack

Norwegian Navy Lieutenant Christian Lian

Lieutenant Christian Lian

Norwegian Navy Lieutenant Christian Lian, aged 31, from Kristiansand, was one of four Norwegian military personnel killed in Afghanistan on 27th June 2010.

The four personnel were all in the same car driving along a road in the Faryab province when a roadside bomb was detonated by Taliban insurgents.

The four men were all fatally wounded in the attack.

Lt. Lian served with the Coastal Rangers.

Nowegian Navy Commander, Trond Bolle

Lt. Commander Trond Bolle

Norwegian Navy Commander, Trond Andre Bolle, aged 41, from Lena, was one of four Norwegian military personnel killed in Afghanistan on 27th June 2010.

The four personnel were all in the same car driving along a road in the Faryab province when a roadside bomb was detonated by Taliban insurgents.

The four men were all fatally wounded in the attack.

Lt. Commander Bolle served with Norwegian Naval Command.

Norwegian Navy ensign, Simen Tokle

Lt. Simen Tokle

Norwegian Navy Ensign, 2nd Lieutenant Simen Tokle, aged 24, from Ballia, was one of four Norwegian military personnel killed in Afghanistan on 27th June 2010.

The four personnel were all in the same car driving along a road in the Faryab province when a roadside bomb was detonated by Taliban insurgents.

The four men were all fatally wounded in the attack.

Lt. Tokle served with the Coastal Rangers.

Norwegian, Andreas Eldjarn

Andreas Eldjarn

Norwegian Navy Quartermaster, Andreas Eldjarn, aged 21, from Tromso, was one of four Norwegian military personnel killed in Afghanistan on 27th June 2010.

The four personnel were all in the same car driving along a road in the Faryab province when a roadside bomb was detonated by Taliban insurgents.

The four men were all fatally wounded in the attack.

QM Eldjarn served with the Coastal Rangers.

Norwegian Grenadier, Joachim Claes Olsson

Joachim Claes Olsson

Norwegian Grenadier, Joachim Claes Olsson, aged 22, and serving with an infantry unit from Norway's Telemark Battalion, was killed 25th January 2010 in Afghanistan.

Grenadier Olsson was commander of a Storm CV9030 tank and was driving in a column of other military vehicles when a roadside bomb detonated.

They on their way to meet soldiers from the Afghan army to conduct joint patrols in the area.

The incident happened in the Ghowrmach district of northern Afghanistan.

Norwegian Captain, Trond Petter Kolset

Captain Trond Petter Kolset

Norwegian officer, Captain Trond Petter Kolset, aged 30 and serving with Military Intelligence, was killed 17th April 2009 in Maymana, Afghanistan.

Captain Kolset, who had been in Afghanistan only one month, was riding in a car on his way to camp when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives straight at the column of Norwegian vehicles.

He was airlifted by helicopter to a German Field Hospital at Mazar-i-Sharif.

Norwegian Private, Kristopher Sorli Jørgensen

Kristopher Sorli Jørgensen

Norwegian Private, Kristopher Sorli Jørgensen, aged 22, and serving with the Norwegian Home Guard was killed by a roadside bomb whilst on patrol 8th November 2008

The incident happened about 8km from Meymaneh.

Pvt. Jørgensen was attached to the Norwegian Command in Meymaneh.

Norwegian journalist, Carsten Thomassen

Carsten Thomassen

Carsten Thomassen, a respected Norwegian journalist and war correspondent for the Norwegian daily Dagbladet, was killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul Serena Hotel, January 15th 2008.

On January 14th, he was covering Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonar Gahr Store's visit to Kabul. Store and his entourage were staying at the Serena Hotel. While Thomassen was waiting to meet Støre in the lobby, at least two Taliban terrorists forced their way into the Serena Hotel by killing the guards posted outside the main entrance using hand grenades. At least one of the terrorists was dressed in an Afghan police uniform, which may have delayed the reaction of the PST bodyguards inside the hotel.

Thomassen was wounded in the arm, leg and stomach. Once the firing died down, he received first aid from VG photographer Harald Henden, Aftenposten reporter Tor Arne Andreassen, and others.

In the confusion following the attack, he was not evacuated until almost two hours later. He went into shock in the ambulance, and died shortly after while undergoing surgery at a nearby field hospital operated by Czech ISAF forces. 

Due to the nature of his injuries, it is doubtful that he would have survived even if he had been evacuated earlier.

At least six other people were killed in the attack, in addition to the terrorists themselves.

Norwegian officer, Lt. Tor Arne Lau-Henriksen

Lt. Tor Arne Lau-Henriksen

Norwegian officer, Lieutenant Tor Arne Lau-Henriksen, aged 33, was killed in action on 23rd July 2007.

He joined Hærens Jegerkommando (Army Ranger Commando) before he went to Afghanistan. During a mission there, Lau-Henriksen was killed by insurgents. 

He and other Norwegian soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission together with soldiers from the Afghan National Army, when they were attacked by Taliban members dressed as civilians. 

Lau-Henriksen was shot in the chest and became the first soldier from Hærens Jegerkommando to be KIA in Afghanistan. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.

Norwegian Grenadier, Tommy Roedningsby

Grenadier, Tommy Roedningsby

Norwegian Grenadier, Tommy Roedningsby, aged 29, was killed on 23rd May 2004 after Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of four vehicles.

The insurgents opened fire with rocket propelled grenades and small arms. One of three RPG shells fired missed the convoy. Another landed without detonating. The third shell, however, hit the rear of an unarmoured Merceded field vehicle fatally wounding Grenadier Roedningsby.

The incident happened in Kabul.