Polish soldier killed in Afghanistan, takes toll to 31

WARSAW: A roadside bomb killed a Polish soldier on patrol in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Monday, taking to 31 his country's death toll there.

Private 1st Class Mariusz Deptula was fatally wounded late Sunday when his unit's vehicle went over an improvised explosive device in the central province of Ghazni.
He died in a field hospital at the Poles' base. Another soldier in the vehicle was seriously wounded, but his life was not in danger, the ministry said.