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Friday, November 04 2005 @ 08:37 AM EST
Contributed by: River97
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 www.baltictimes.com
Estonia's peacekeepers in Iraq registered their second fatality this week when 28-year-old Arre Illenzeer was killed in a Baghdad explosion on the morning of October 25, 2004. Five other Estonian soldiers were wounded in the incident.
According to Estonian Defense Force staff, soldiers from ESTPLA-9, the peacekeeping unit in Iraq, were in their trucks on a patrol mission when a makeshift bomb exploded beneath one of the vehicles.
The coalition soldiers were driving two trucks, the second of which triggered the explosion. Illenzeer, who was driving the second truck, died immediately, according to Major Sten Reimann of the Defense Force staff.
Reimann said the explosive device that took Illenzeer's life was apparently buried under or close to the road and thus not visible.
He added that the explosion left a crater the size of the vehicle, allowing him to assume that there had been 50 kilograms - 100 kilograms of explosives.
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Friday, March 12 2004 @ 08:04 AM EST
Contributed by: tomw
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www.hipakistan.com -- TALLINN, Estonians expressed shock and sadness after news broke across this small, close-knit Baltic nation Sunday of their first casualty in Iraq.
"Estonia is in mourning,'' President Arnold Ruutel said in a statement Sunday. "The death of this brave young man in Iraq is an irreplaceable loss to his family and to all of Estonia.''
As people gathered at church services, Prime Minister Juhan Parts urged them to pray for 21-year-old Andres Nuiamae. The junior sergeant was the first soldier in Estonian uniform killed in combat abroad since 1920. |
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