KABUL - A Danish soldier was killed and another wounded in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said on Thursday.The Danes were on patrol Wednesday in Helmand province, a hotbed of Taliban activity, when they came under fire in the Gereshk area, said an ISAF spokesman in the province, British Lieutenant Colonel Simon Miller. “Regrettably as a result of the firefight one Danish soldier was killed and another was wounded,” Miller said.
Including the latest death, Denmark has lost 13 soldiers in Afghanistan. Two other Danes were killed March 17 in an attack on an ISAF convoy. Denmark has about 550 troops in Helmand, where most international soliders with ISAF are British.