US soldier killed in Afghanistan is identified
Published July 05, 2017 Fox News
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The Pentagon identified the U.S. soldier Wednesday who was killed in Afghanistan on Monday.
Pfc. Hansen B. Kirkpatrick, 19, of Wasilla, Alaska, was named as the fallen soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom Sentinel.
The soldier died from his wounds he received during an “indirect fire attack,” in the Helmand Province, the Defense Department said. Indirect fire is an attack with shells launched from a mortar.
Kirkpatrick was in a building when a Taliban mortar round struck the roof and exploded inside, Capt. Bill Selvin, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told Fox News.
Soldiers returned fire after the explosion, killing two Taliban militants and wounding a few others.