2 American victims of Afghan attack identified

A decorated U.S. soldier from Illinois and an Army civilian employee from Oklahoma who both had been deployed multiple times to support military operations in Afghanistan were killed in an attack this week in Kabul, the Defense Department said.

Army Sgt. Douglas Riney, 26, of Fairview, Ill., and Michael Sauro, 40, of McAlester, Okla., died of wounds received when they encountered hostile enemy forces in Afghanistan’s capital, the military announced.

“Mike was the type of person who no matter what you asked of him, he was always willing to lend a helping hand to everybody,” said Deborah Schreiner, chief of HAZMAT training at the Defense Ammunition Center in Oklahoma where Sauro was assigned.