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Two other soldiers - Juan Pablo Balarezo Delgado (23) from Quito in Ecuador and Jacobo del Cristo Pérez Salas (21) from Santa Cruz de Tenerife - were slightly injured while a fourth escaped unhurt.
The accident occurred at 12.40pm (local time) in the Qades district of Bagdhis province, around 25km north of the Spanish provincial construction team base (PRT) in Qala i Naw.
The four occupants of the vehicle were helicoptered to the Role 2 Hospital in Herat.
This latest incident, which coincided with the fourth anniversary of the Yak-42 accident when 62 died in a plane crash in Turkey on their way back from Afghanistan to Spain, rises the total number of Spanish military personnel killed on overseas missions to 129 since 1989.
Including the 62 killed in the Yak-42 crash, a total of 89 of these fatalaties have occurred in Afghanistan: 17 others were killed in 2005 when the Cougar helicopter they were travelling in, crashed, two were killed in attacks by insurgents while one died of a heart attack.
VARIOUS charities and organisations – local and national – have set up channels for members of the public to help those affected by the storms and flash floods in the province of Valencia.
NEW legislation aiming to protect the public from telephone scams and cold-calling is under construction, and will attempt to attack it at source by tightening up on commercial use of customers' personal data.
GREATER practical and financial help for parents is on the cards now that a new 'family law' has passed its second reading in the Council of Ministers, with extended maternity and paternity pay, protected time...
BRITISH media outlets have lauded Spain's Queen Letizia's effortlessly-elegant dress sense over the past few days as she accompanies her husband King Felipe VI to London.