Pentagon Identifies Service Members Killed In Afghanistan

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Two soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division were killed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, by a bomb on Wednesday and the incident is being investigated, according to the Pentagon.

The statement says 23-year-old Sgt. Jonathan Michael Hunter of Columbus, Ind., and 25-year-old Spc. Christopher Michael Harris of Jackson Springs, N.C., were killed by an improvised explosive device in a vehicle which exploded near their convoy.

A Pentagon official says four other U.S. service members were injured.

As we reported Wednesday, the Taliban claimed one of its militants carried out a suicide attack with a truck packed with explosives.