Tommy Rødningsby, 29, was paid last respects in a ceremony at the Norwegian camp on Monday. His death hit fellow soldiers hard but they were continuing to focus on fulfilling their mission in Afghanistan, press officer Ola Bøe Hansen told the Defense web site.
Rødningsby was traveling with 12-20 other soldiers in a column of four vehicles when they came under close range missile fire on Sunday evening.
One of the three shells fired missed the convoy and one landed without detonating. The third hit an unarmored Mercedes field vehicle in the rear, fatally wounding Rødningsby. One other soldier received minor injuries.
Lieutenant General Thorstein Skiaker told Aftenposten that he did not believe an armored car would necessarily have saved Rødningsby.
"It would have to have been a very heavily armored vehicle then. With a lightly armored vehicle the damage could have been even greater," Skiaker said.
The Norwegian forces need to have a certain amount of public contact with the residents of Kabul and that is why they also use some regular vehicles.
