Czech soldier in Afghanistan hurt in road accident

A member of the Czech military police serving in Afghanistan was wounded on Monday in a traffic accident in the province of Logar, the site of operations for the Czech Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), an army spokeswoman has revealed. The officer suffered minor injuries. The soldier was in a convoy of military police vehicles en route from the Czech base in Logar to Kabul. But his vehicle flipped over following a defect in a wheel. The soldier was airlifted to the US field hospital in Bagram, from where he will now be sent home to the Czech Republic. The Czechs have 400 soldiers in Afghanistan; 200 of them are deployed in Logar.