FED:Wounded Aust soldier flown to Germany

AAP General News (Australia)
12-23-2010
FED:Wounded Aust soldier flown to Germany

An Australian soldier who was seriously wounded on Sunday in an improvised explosive
device explosion in Afghanistan .. has been flown to Germany for specialist treatment.

The unnamed soldier was one of two members of the Mentoring Task Force hurt in separate
IED blasts in the Baluchi Valley region of Oruzgan province.

His commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel DARREN HUXLEY says the soldier suffered serious
blast and fragmentation wounds .. and he's been flown to the major NATO hospital in Germany.

His mother has been flown out to be with him.

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KEYWORD: AFGHAN AUST (CANBERRA)

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