British soldier killed in Afghanistan: defence ministry
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A British soldier has been killed when a roadside mine exploded in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
The soldier was pronounced dead at the scene Sunday in an attack just outside Musa Qala in the south of the country, which injured five others.
"The company were disrupting enemy forces and reassuring local Afghans when a vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a roadside minestrike," the ministry said in a statement.
The death takes to 10 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year.
ISAF is working with a US-led coalition and Afghan forces to defeat an insurgency led by the hardline Taliban movement that was driven from government in late 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
- AFP
