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N.D. (AP) – The North Dakota National Guard has identified two soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan and a third who was wounded.

Forty-one-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Darren Linde, of Devils Lake, and 20-year-old Spc. Tyler Orgaard, of Bismarck, died Monday when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle.

Twenty-three-year-old Spc. Ian Placek, of Bismarck, was wounded. The Guard says he’s in stable condition at a hospital in Germany.

The head of the North Dakota National Guard is Major General Dave Sprynczynatyk …

The soldiers were with the 818th Engineer Company. The unit is headquartered in Williston with a detachment in Hazen. About 100 members of the unit deployed in April for a year of duty overseas.

The North Dakota National Guard had not had a casualty in the war on terror for six years. Fourteen North Dakota guardsmen have now died in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.