Houston sergeant killed in Afghanistan

HOUSTON -- A soldier from Houston has died in Afghanistan after a roadside bomb detonated near his vehicle.

The Department of Defense says 27-year-old Sergeant Jacob Molina and another soldier from the Army's 25th Infantry Division were killed by an improvised explosive device on Tuesday in Kunar province.

Molina and 29-year-old Staff Sergeant James Christen of Loomis, California are survived by their wives.

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