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Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Jacob Kovco
- Jacob Bruce "Jake" Kovco (25 September 1980 – 21 April 2006) was a private in the Australian Army who was killed while deployed to Iraq, fatally wounded by a single shot to the head from his own Browning 9mm sidearm.
- He was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations.
- A military inquiry found Private Kovco accidentally shot himself while mishandling his pistol.
- This conclusion was disputed by his family and on 2 April 2008, a second inquest returned a similar verdict, finding that his death was "irresponsibly self-inflicted", and that when he pulled his gun's trigger he "disregarded the possible consequences of danger".
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