Injured U.S. soldier dies after IED attack in Afghanistan

LANDSTUHL, GERMANY (BNO NEWS) — A U.S. soldier from New York who was injured in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan earlier this month has died of injuries while undergoing treatment in Germany, the U.S. Defense Department announced on Saturday. It raises the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year to 394.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Reid, 26, of Rochester, New York, was injured on December 9 when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Sperwan, a village in Kandahar province in Afghanistan’s volatile south. He was flown to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he died of his injuries on Thursday.

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