Romania’s defence ministry says a soldier has died after a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan.
The ministry says Catalin Ionel Marinescu died of wounds he sustained on Tuesday, after an explosion of an improvised explosive device as he was inspecting a footbridge in Zabul province.
Marinescu, 28, is the second Romanian soldier to die in Afghanistan in a week.
Romania has about 1,700 troops serving in Afghanistan, mostly in the restive south where the Taliban regularly target foreign and Afghan troops with improvised explosive devices. It has now lost 19 service members in the conflict.
