(AP) -- MONROE, Mich. - A Michigan soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
The Department of Defense announced Monday that 19-year-old Army Pfc. Eric Hario of Monroe died Saturday in Paktika province, Afghanistan.
Hario was an Army Ranger assigned to 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga.
Also killed was 29-year-old Staff Sgt. Jason Dahlke of Orlando, Fla. The Pentagon says they were shot Friday in combat.
Hario's remains arrived early Monday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
Becky Hario tells The Monroe Evening News she last spoke to her son a day or two before the battle that took his life.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Monroe is about 25 miles south of Detroit.
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