The Bulgarian ranger who suffered the worst injures during Taliban rocket attack on the Kandahar NATO Air Base Sunday night is in a critical condition.

This has been reported by a correspondent of the Dnevnik Daily who one of the journalists accompanying Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Mladenov on his Afghanistan visit.

A Taliban rocket attack hit the Kandahar Air Base late Sunday night during the visit of the Bulgarian Defense Minister there. Four Bulgarian rangers have been wounded as a result, and one of them is reported to be in a coma.

According to the media reports, the condition of the severely injured Bulgarian is critical even though it has not been formally confirmed that he is in a coma.

The Taliban launched rocket exploded some 200 m away from the quarters of the 270-strong Bulgarian contingent guarding the Kandahar airport.

The four injured men are Sr. Alexander Alexandrov, Corporal Yordan Petkov, Private Yavor Ivanov, and Private Lachezar Ivanov. It has not been announced which one of them is in a critical condition.

The forces of the Kandahar Air Base, which is the major ISAF airport in Southern Afghanistan, are on high alert. Bulgaria’s Defense Minister Mladenov told the BNR that the forces have reacted in an extremely professional way to the Taliban rocket hit. He said that the Bulgarian ambulance arrived on the spot of the explosion almost immediately, taken care of the injured rangers.

The Bulgarian delegation to Afghanistan was supposed to fly back on Monday but the incident is most likely going to change the existing plans.

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