Spanish soldier killed, two wounded in Afghanistan

MADRID, Feb 21 (Reuters) One Spanish soldier was killed and two were wounded when their convoy of armoured ambulances was attacked in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said today.

She was killed when the convoy was attacked near Shindand, south of Herat, while troops were on their way to support Italian soldiers training the Afghan army.

''At the moment, we are investigating who carried out the attack and how. At the moment, everything seems to point towards a high-potency mine,'' the ministry said.

Spain has almost 700 soldiers based in western Afghanistan as part of the 35,000-strong NATO forces there.

The defence ministry named the dead soldier as Idoia Rodriguez Bujan. She was from Lugo, northwest Spain.

The two injured soldiers have been transported to Herat and are out of danger, the ministry said.

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