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i just picked the first source, but a simple search shows the same story shared on several sources.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1655527/3-bahadur-brave-afghanistans-bomb-disposal-hero-killed/
i've only posted little excerpts to keep within the rules, but the whole story is a worthwhile read.
other than giving notice to it, i'm not sure what perspective i can add as the thread starter, other than to say i salute his sacrifice for his people.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1655527/3-bahadur-brave-afghanistans-bomb-disposal-hero-killed/
Bahadur Agha, a bomb disposal technician wounded six times by the Taliban, joked the seventh would be his last. He was right: after dismantling hundreds of IEDs barehanded, this Afghan hero died defusing one final device.
Crawling along the ground ahead of Afghan military convoys, the 31-year-old policeman saved countless lives in southern Helmand province, defusing landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) without a face shield, helmet, body armour or gloves.
With nothing to protect his body, Bahadur knew that one wrong move could be his last. But he had apparently accepted the poor odds for survival.
“We were getting shot at but he didn’t care. Everyone else took cover, he stood up and walked around,” Anderson told AFP.
“He said he didn’t care if he lived or died, he just wanted to kill the Taliban. And it was obvious this was true, he was totally traumatised.
“He should have been taken off the battlefield long ago… although he probably would have refused to leave.”
Former colleagues in Helmand, the restive poppy-growing province still largely controlled by the Taliban more than 16 years after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan, said he lived up to his name — Bahadur, which in Pashto means “the brave” or “the hero”.
“When it was complicated, it was always Bahadur who did it,” one colleague, Haibatullah, told AFP, before adding bitterly: “The government does not care about our lives.”
Bahadur’s commander Ghulam Dawood Tarakhail recalled a “brave and patriotic officer” who “defused hundreds of roadside bombs or landmines”.
“Bahadur was a skilled and professional deminer,” Tarakhail told AFP, adding that just three weeks before he died Bahadur was awarded a medal for his service.
Despite his sacrifice, Bahadur’s untimely death has gone largely unnoticed in the war-torn country that has been numbed by the relentless and bloody violence.
i've only posted little excerpts to keep within the rules, but the whole story is a worthwhile read.
other than giving notice to it, i'm not sure what perspective i can add as the thread starter, other than to say i salute his sacrifice for his people.