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Published March 15, 2013, 09:06 AM

ND soldier wounded in Afghanistan recovering

A North Dakota soldier who was wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed two of his comrades is back home in Bismarck recovering and doing administrative work for the National Guard.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota soldier who was wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan that killed two of his comrades is back home in Bismarck recovering and doing administrative work for the National Guard.

Twenty-three-year-old Ian Placek suffered burns to his back, side and a wrist in the blast last Dec. 3, along with an ankle injury that has required two surgeries. He initially was treated at a hospital in Germany and then at Fort Riley in Kansas.

The Bismarck Tribune reports Placek is doing physical therapy on his own in Bismarck. He's still on crutches and wearing a boot on his injured foot, but he's working at the National Guard armory for the 68th Troop Command.

Placek says support from family, friends and the military has been phenomenal.

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