PHOENIX -- For the second day in a row, an Arizona soldier has lost his life in the war in Iraq.

Soldier dies after roadside bomb attack

Sgt. John Kyle Daggett was seriously injured early this month in a roadside bomb attack.

He was operated on in Iraq and then flown to a military hospital in Nova Scotia.

The Army Airborne ranger never regained consciousness and died on Thursday.

Daggett was from here in the Valley. He graduated from Pinnacle High School and was deployed from his training base in Oahu, Hawaii, in January.

Daggett was 21 years old.