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Officials: NC-based Marine killed in Afghanistan

Submitted by WWAY on Wed, 02/24/2010 - 10:35am.READ MORE:

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. -- Military officials say a North Carolina-based Marine has died while fighting in southern Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense said on Tuesday that 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Matthias N. Hanson of Buffalo, Ky., died Sunday in Helmand province, Afghanistan, site of a major offensive by U.S. and Afghan
forces against the Taliban.

Other details were not immediately available.

Hanson was a rifleman assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. He joined the Marine Corps in June 2008.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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