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CONCORD, Ohio – The Department of Defense says an Ohio soldier has died in Iraq.

The military identified the soldier as 41-year-old Maj. Michael S. Evarts of Concord. The department said in a news release that Evarts died Monday in Tikrit in “a noncombat related incident.”

Evarts was assigned to the 256th Combat Support Hospital in Twinsburg, Ohio.