Ministry of National Defence
Press release No. 96 26.03.2006
The Military Wounded in Iraq, Died

The Romanian military hospitalized in Kuwait City, died Saturday evening, March 25, around 19:30 hours.

Corporal Dobre Lil, contract enlisted within the 280th Infantry Battalion, the unit participating in Antica Babilonia operation in Iraq was since March 14 in coma under Kuwaiti medical care.

The commission investigating the incident found out that the military, alone in his tent after the fulfillment of a mission shouted in his head.

The 2nd Joint Operational Command coordinating the activities of the Romanian military in mission in the theaters of operations will repatriate the corpse.

MoND Press Office