Body of soldier killed in Afghanistan repatriated

A Czech army special landed in Prague on Sunday afternoon carrying the body of a Czech soldier killed by a landslide of rock and mud in Afghanistan last week. The accident in which another five soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, happened on Thursday night during a strong storm about 30 kilometres from the Czechs' base. Four vehicles and fourteen military personnel were travelling in the area when the landslide occurred. Eighty-three Czech soldiers are working along German and Danish troops in Badakhshan Province and the Czech Republic also operates a military field hospital in the Aghan capital Kabul.