Thursday, November 10 2005 @ 10:56 AM MST
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Carlos Castro, based in San Salvador, was killed on Monday June 27, 2005, due to a vehicle accident in Camp Charlie near Al Hillah. It appears that there was an accident as Carlos was repairing the vehicle.
As far as the accident, it happened within the military base Charly, when Godoy Castro came to change a rim of a military vehicle, and was coiled "by another vehicle that arrived to fulfill a mission", explained Defense.
 
Godoy Castro is the second dead Salvadoran military man in Iraq, after which the 4 of April of 2004 Natividad Méndez Branches it perished at hands of Shiite combatants in Nayaf.
The spokesman of the Armed Forces, Manuel Antonio Solano, explained that the accident happened to 11:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. in Iraq): "He died in an accident... at the moment at which he was changing a rim".
"another vehicle Came coming near, they did not take hold the brakes to him, and went taking", said it the military spokesman.
Nothing was reported on the state of health of the people who handled that second vehicle; either if it had not stopped.
Solano discarded that the death has to do with "attacks or pumps; it was an accident that has fallen to us as cold water bucket ".
The death of Godoy Castro arrives just at the moment at which the country debates if a fifth contingent will be sent to the Asian country. Although the Assembly not yet has voted that point, the president of the Republic, ElÃ-as Antonio Saca, insinuated in Paris the past Friday that the Salvadoran troops will follow in Iraq after August.
Consulted yesterday, Extraction lamented the death of the Salvadoran soldier, who was of discharge in the Cavalry regiment, with seat in San Juan Opico, the Freedom.
"I have received the report of the Ministry of Defense, and I will put myself in contact with the family to give him ours more felt condolence", said the governor.
This artlcle has been translated from Spanish to English. |
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