Kabul: Eight US soldiers deployed in Afghanistan have been charged in connection with the Oct. 3 death of a fellow who apparently committed suicide in a guard tower, US military officials said Wednesday.
Pvt. Danny Chen, 19, an infantryman, died from an “apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound” at a small combat outpost in Kandahar Province, according to a statement issued by the Nato command in southern Afghanistan.
A military official told Chen’s parents that fellow soldiers had been physically abusive toward Chen, and taunted him with ethnic slurs, The New York Times reported in October.
Military officials declined Wednesday to release documents detailing the charges against the soldiers and did not provide a detailed account of the events that led to Chen’s death.
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