Two soldiers killed in bomb attack
Wednesday 16th December 2009, 8:57AM GMT.
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Two British soldiers have been killed by a suspected suicide bomber while on patrol in Afghanistan.
The men, from the 3rd Battalion, The Rifles, were caught in the blast while on patrol with the Afghan army near Sangin in Helmand on Tuesday afternoon.
They were on foot at the time of the explosion, which also killed two Afghan army soldiers.
The British soldiers’ families have been told.
A total of 239 UK service personnel have died in Afghanistan since 2001, including 102 so far this year.
The soldiers were on a joint patrol with the Afghan National Army and the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force.
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