France’s defence ministry says two French soldiers have died in accidents in Afghanistan.
The ministry says a lieutenant was killed from injuries sustained when a Gazelle light helicopter crashed in bad weather not far from the Bagram Air Base north of the capital, Kabul.
Separately, a French soldier died after his weapon went off as he was riding in an armoured vehicle near the Tagab district, in an area east of Kabul where French forces are deployed in the NATO mission in Afghanistan.
The ministry said on Saturday that as a result of the deaths a day earlier, 61 French soldiers have now died in Afghanistan since an international alliance toppled the Taliban regime there in 2001.
France has some 4,000 troops committed to the Afghan mission.
