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Estonian soldier dies in Afghanistan

Jun 16, 2009
TBT Staff Tallinn

TALLINN- Master Sergeant Allain Tikko, a thirty-year-old Estonian soldier serving in Afghanistan was killed in an attack on June 15.


“I bow my head in deep mourning in memory of Allain Tikko, an Estonian soldier that has fallen in battle,” President Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote to the family of Tikko.


“Warrant Officer Allain Tikko, who previously served on three foreign missions, was a professional and brave soldier, a reliable comrade-in-arms for his fellow soldiers. It is unfair and disconsolately painful that we now remember him with thoughts of bereavement,” President Ilves wrote.

“Perhaps, along with words of consolation, you can find strength in the knowledge that although Allain Tikko died far from home, he was protecting the security of Estoniaas a NATO ally. Allain Tikko died for Estonia,” the Head of State wrote.

Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis and Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins on behalf of the Government of Latvia have sent letters of condolences to the Estonian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.       

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