Afghan police have arrested the man believed responsible for the death of Spanish servicewoman, Idoia Rodríguez, who was killed when a land mine exploded underneath the vehicle in which she was travelling on the 21st February.

Hajji Said Ahmad was arrested on the 25th March at a police roadblock in Herat along with two other Taliban insurgents. All are believed to form part of a Taliban terror cell responsible for a number of other recent landmine attacks in the Herat and Farah area, and Afghan police have also confirmed that ten remote control detonators ready for immediate use were found in the boot of the car in which the three men were stopped.

Servicewoman killed in convoy ambush
By: thinkSPAIN
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

A female Spanish soldier from Lugo -identified as Idoia Rodríguez Buján- has been killed in an attack on a Spanish medical convoy near the Afghan town of Shindand earlier today at around 12 noon CET, according to a statement from the Spanish Defence ministry.

Two others -Second Lieutenant César Muñoz Pantoja and Corporal Jorge Liaño del Río- were injured, but are said to be out of danger.

All three, who have been airlifted by helcipoter to the Spanish base at Herat, were travelling in an armour-plated ambulance, driven by Ms Bujuán, that was travelling in a convoy with four similar vehicles on their way to support an Italian team providing training to the Afghan army.

First indications suggest that the ambulance may have triggered a high explosive land mine.