An area soldier has died in Kuwait in what the Department of Defense has called a non-combat incident.
37-year-old Holli Bolinski of Pinckneyville was one of two soldiers from the Army Reserve unit out of Belleville who died. The other was 20-year-old Jackson Johnson of Hillsboro, Mo.
Authorities say the soldier’s vehicle collided with a civilian commercial tractor-trailer.
Bolinski is the second soldier from Pinckneyville killed on foreign soil. Wyatt Eisenhauer was killed in action in 2005 while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom.