Soldier from Colorado Springs dies in Iraq

Posted: 07.19.2011 at 3:26 PM

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. (AP) -- The Defense Department says a soldier from Colorado Springs has died from injuries he suffered in a noncombat incident in Iraq.

The military says 25-year-old Sgt. Mark A. Cofield died Sunday in Baghdad.

Cofield was assigned to the Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, N.C.

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