Charity run for soldiers killed in Afghanistan

A charity run to raise money for the families of the five Czech soldiers killed in Afghanistan at the beginning of June will take place on Saturday in the town of Chrudim, the site of the military base where four of them trained. The 3-kilometre run, in which many of their fellow servicemen will take part, is to start from the Cloister Gardens on Ressel Square at 10 pm and will end outside the barracks of the 43rd Airborne Mechanised Battalion in Chrudim. It is the last of a series of charity events which raised 4.5 million crowns for the soldiers’ families.