The Finnish Defence Forces have released the identity the Finnish peacekeeper killed in a bomb attack in Maimana in the north of Afghanistan early Wednesday morning. The victim was Petri Tapio Immonen, a 29-year-old sergeant, with experience from peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo. He first went to Afghanistan in September last year. Four Norwegian peacekeepers and one local passer-by were injured in the same attack.

      Investigators believe that the improvised explosive device used involved a 122 mm artillery shell, which was probably detonated by remote control. Immonen was less than two metres away from the explosive, which was hidden inside an oil canister.
      In Finland, Immonen worked for the Finnish Border Guard in the southeast of the country.