Kolozsvári was critically wounded by shrapnel in an ambush in Afghanistan in which Judit Ábrahám Papp died last month.

The Taliban meanwhile called on Hungarian soldiers serving in Afghanistan to leave the country, via the website of the Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post.

On the day following the ambush Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mudjaheed had demanded the departure of the Hungarian contingent, warning that they are planning further attacks. As Hungarians and Afghans have no conflict with each other it makes no sense for Hungary to send soldiers to “the occupying forces”, Mudjaheed argued.

US ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis conveyed her condolences to the soldier’s next of kin.

Defence Ministry state secretary István Simicskó told reporters yesterday that the armed forces may change the composition of the team taking part in the Afghan mission.

In all four Hungarian soldiers have now died in Afghanistan."

Source: Hungary Around the Clock.

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