LONDON, Aug 6: A British soldier was killed in action on Sunday in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand, the Ministry of Defence said.
The ministry said no further details were available and the deceased’s next of kin were being informed.
The International Security Assistance Force said in a statement from Kabul that a soldier serving with Nato had been killed during an attack in Helmand.
It was the ninth soldier to be killed in southern Afghanistan since Nato took command of military operations there last Monday.
The chief of the British Army had earlier defended the military operation in Afghanistan after it was reported on Sunday that soldiers there were being stretched to “the brink of exhaustion” by Taliban fighters.
BOMBER: Meanwhile, a suspected suicide car bomb Sunday exploded near a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan but there were no immediate reports about casualties, officials and witnesses said.
The explosion took place just east of Kandahar city on the main highway to the capital Kabul, and Afghan and foreign troops had cordoned off the area as helicopters were flying towards the site, an AFP reporter said.
