By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Kirotv.com [1] reports a Winlock native was killed yesterday in Kabul, Afghanistan by a suicide car bomb.
Michael Hughes, most recently of Las Vegas, who previously worked as a corrections officer at McNeil Island was employed as a civilian contractor training Afghans to run their own prisons, according to the news item from the Associated Press
Hughes’ age was not reported. They write the blast took the life also of another civilian contractor and injured seven Afghans.
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