
QUINCY, Mass. — The military says a 30-year-old soldier from Quincy who died last week in Afghanistan was not killed in combat.
The Department of Defense says Spc. Ciara Durkin died Sept. 29 of injuries suffered in a non-combat related incident at Bagram Airfield. The statement had no specifics and said the circumstances are under investigation.
Durkin was assigned to the 726th Finance Battalion of the Massachusetts Army National Guard.
Durkin’s sister, Fiona Canavan, told The Boston Globe that military officials have told the family she was found shot in the head inside a secure area at the base. Canavan said her sister was near a church...