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The Ministry of Defence is expected to name the latest British soldier to be killed in southern Afghanistan.

The soldier attached to the 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment was caught in a blast south of Sangin in Helmand Province.

He was on a joint Afghan National Army and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol when the incident happened just before 11am local time yesterday.

Next of kin have been informed.

Medical assistance was provided immediately but the soldier was declared dead at the scene.

A local interpreter was injured by the explosion and was being treated at the field hospital at Camp Bastion.

ISAF said the soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device during a routine patrol.

Wing Commander Antony McCord, a spokesman for Regional Command South, said: "Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the soldier who died in this tragic incident and with those of his wounded Afghan colleague."

The death brings the number of British military fatalities in Afghanistan and Iraq combined to 255 - equalling the number killed during the Falklands war.

Eighty-fourpersonnel have been killed in Afghanistan since the start of operations in November 2001.

And in Iraq there have been 171 deaths since the 2003 invasion.


  • 180 British Soldier AfghanistanA British soldier in Afghanistan