British soldier killed on foot patrol in Afghanistan
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
London, May 26, IRNA – A British soldier has been killed during fighting in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defense in London announced Wednesday.
The soldier was said to have been on a joint foot patrol with Afghan National Army personnel near Nahr-e Saraj in Helmand Province to reassure the local population after a spate of insurgent aggression.
The latest British death is the 42nd so far this year and total number of killed in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001 to 287, 108 more than in Iraq.
Last week, it was announced that around 8,000 British troops in Helmand are being put under US command in a major restructuring plan following the dispatch of some 20,000 American reinforcements to the volatile province in southern Afghanistan.
Under the arrangements, the existing Regional Command (South) will be split during the summer into two new headquarters based in Helmand and Kandahar.
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