{"id":1616,"date":"2011-06-11T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2011-06-11T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:57:03","slug":"2-french-soldiers-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/06\/11\/1616\/","title":{"rendered":"2 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news1\/france_killing.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"247\" height=\"197\" align=\"right\" \/>Two French soldiers have been killed and another seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan.<br \/>French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in a statement on Friday that a flight lieutenant died of his injuries after a Gazelle chopper crashed about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bagram in northern Afghanistan, AFP reported.  <!--more-->  <br \/>The pilot of the helicopter was seriously injured, the statement added.<br \/>Another French soldier fatally wounded himself with his own gun while going back to Tagab base in the northeast following a mission on the same day.<br \/>The Friday&#8217;s incidents raise the number of casualties for French soldiers to at least 61 since the US-led invasion of the Asian country in 2001.<br \/>At least 238 foreign troops have lost their lives in war-torn Afghanistan in 2011.<br \/>Last year, nonetheless, remains the deadliest year so far for foreign military casualties with a death toll of 711. The number eclipsed the previous record of 521, set in 2009.<br \/>Hundreds of civilians have also been killed in US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming increasingly outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.<br \/><em><br \/>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two French soldiers have been killed and another seriously wounded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan.French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said in a statement on Friday that a flight lieutenant died of his injuries after a Gazelle chopper crashed about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Bagram in northern Afghanistan, AFP reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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