British soldiers on unit in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Photograph: John D McHugh/AFP/Getty images
A British infantryman from 3rd Battalion the Rifles has been killed in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence pronounced today.
The MoD pronounced the soldier"s subsequent of family had been informed. His death, that brings the sum of British fatalities in Afghanistan to 268 given the dispute began, was not continuous to Operation Moshtarak, an descent opposite the Taliban.
The method pronounced the infantryman had been killed at a car checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
The serviceman was the second piece of of UK forces to be shot passed nearby Sangin, in the north of Helmand province, in dual days.
He died after entrance underneath glow whilst piece of a organisation partnering Afghan soldiers at the checkpoint.
Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, a orator for Task Force Helmand, said: "It is my unhappy avocation to surprise you that a British soldier... was killed by small arms glow in Sangin, northern Helmand.
"He was piece of a organisation from 3 Rifle partnering Afghan inhabitant armed forces soldiers at a car checkpoint to the south-east of Sangin district centre when the checkpoint was dismissed on.
"He died safeguarding the people of Sangin. He will be sorely longed for by us, his comrades – we will recollect him."
The MoD yesterday pronounced a infantryman from A Company, 4th Battalion the Rifles, had died as a outcome of small arms glow nearby Sangin.
In alternative developments, an Afghan comprehension central blamed the Pakistan-based belligerent organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba for last week"s car explosve and self-murder attacks that killed sixteen people in the heart of the capital, Kabul. The Afghan Taliban have claimed shortcoming for the attack.
Lashkar-e-Taiba is the same organisation India blames for the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks in that 166 people were killed, bringing serve tragedy to family in between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan.
Saeed Ansari, a orator for Afghanistan"s inhabitant directorate of security, pronounced his group had justification that Pakistanis were concerned in the attacks on Kabul guesthouses busy by Indians and alternative foreigners. Six Indians were between the dead.
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