Fort Riley Monday announced the death of another soldier in Iraq.

22-year old Private Benjamin Tollefson of Concord, California died
Dec. 31 in Balad, Iraq. Fort Riley says he died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with indirect fire in Ghazaliya.

Tollefson was an infantryman. He was assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. This
was his first deployment in support of the war on terror.

Tollefson enlisted in the Army in August 2007. He arrived at Fort Riley in March 2008.

To date, 159 Fort Riley servicemembers have died while serving in
support of Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom.