The Department of Defense said Wednesday evening that Maj. Michael J. Donahue, 41, a former Massachusetts resident, was one of two people killed Tuesday in a suicide bombing outside an American military base in Kabul, Afghanistan.The Brockton Enterprise reported Wednesday that a graduate of Whitman High School, Class of 1990, Donahue was a major assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and a married father of three, according to WNCN-TV in North Carolina.Donahue was one of two Americans killed when a Taliban attacker detonated his car bomb next to an international military convoy.The explosion occurred off a busy road that runs from the U.S. Embassy to the airport, near the country's supreme court, according to WNCN.Donahue, who listed his interests in the Whitman High yearbook as mountain climbing, surfing, skiing and volleyball, enlisted in the Army in February 1996 and was commissioned through Officer Candidate School in April 2000.Local family members included Joanne Nickerson, of Middleborough, who is reportedly en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where Donahue's body was slated to arrive Wednesday night. Donahue's parents also live in North Carolina.Donahue was assigned to Fort Bragg in July 2012 and served three combat tours of duty.Also killed in the blast was a civilian contractor, Stephen Byus, 39, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, according to The Associated Press. A Polish soldier was also killed and five troops were wounded, WNCN said.The three military deaths -- and a fourth in the country's east -- brought the total number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 59, at least 42 of whom were American.

The Department of Defense said Wednesday evening that Maj. Michael J. Donahue, 41, a former Massachusetts resident, was one of two people killed Tuesday in a suicide bombing outside an American military base in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Brockton Enterprise reported Wednesday that a graduate of Whitman High School, Class of 1990, Donahue was a major assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and a married father of three, according to WNCN-TV in North Carolina.


Donahue was one of two Americans killed when a Taliban attacker detonated his car bomb next to an international military convoy.

The explosion occurred off a busy road that runs from the U.S. Embassy to the airport, near the country's supreme court, according to WNCN.

Donahue, who listed his interests in the Whitman High yearbook as mountain climbing, surfing, skiing and volleyball, enlisted in the Army in February 1996 and was commissioned through Officer Candidate School in April 2000.



Local family members included Joanne Nickerson, of Middleborough, who is reportedly en route to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where Donahue's body was slated to arrive Wednesday night. Donahue's parents also live in North Carolina.

Donahue was assigned to Fort Bragg in July 2012 and served three combat tours of duty.

Also killed in the blast was a civilian contractor, Stephen Byus, 39, of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, according to The Associated Press. A Polish soldier was also killed and five troops were wounded, WNCN said.



The three military deaths -- and a fourth in the country's east -- brought the total number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 59, at least 42 of whom were American.