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DENVER—An 18-year-old Fort Carson soldier from Hammond, La., has died after a roadside bomb struck a convoy in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon says Pfc. Matthew Wildes was killed Thursday. He was with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, part of Fort Carson’s 4th Infantry Division.
The brigade went to Afghanistan in May to patrol a four-province area along the Pakistan border.
Fort Carson, on the southern edge of Colorado Springs, has lost 264 soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 10 killed since June in a rash of Afghan attacks.
