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Bulgaria Defense Minister, Anyu Angelov. Photo by Sofia Photo Agency
The Bulgarian Defense Minister, Anyu Angelov, has ordered two planes to be sent to Germany to collect the 4 Bulgarian soldiers, who were injured by a Taliban a rocket attack in Kandahar.
Tsetska Tsacheva, Bulgaria’s Parliament Speaker announced the move on Thursday at the start of a Bulgarian Parliament plenary session.
9 Bulgarian medics will be aboard the two planes, along with specialist medical equipment. The injured rangers are currently in the US military hospital in Landschtul, Germany.
4 Bulgarian rangers were injured on 24 January, 3 of them seriously, by a Taliban rocket attack on the NATO Air Base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, during the visit of Ex Bulgaria Defense Minister, Nikolay Mladenov to the Base.
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