TWO more British soldiers have been killed in 24 hours in Afghanistan.
Pandora Beads WholesaleA trooper from 3rd Battalion, The Rifles was shot in a firefight with insurgents yesterday near Sangin in Helmand Province.
His death comes a day after another Rifleman was killed in a bomb blast on a foot patrol in the town. The deaths of the soldiers - neither of whom had been named last night - mean the regiment has now lost 38 men since the start of 2009 and four in just six days.
Neither incident was part of Operation Moshtarak.
Last Monday 28-year-old Rifleman Carlo Apolis from 4 Rifles, but serving as part of 3 Rifles, was shot dead by a Taliban in Sangin. The following day the unit lost Corporal Richard Green, 23.
The latest death - which coincided with Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to Afghanistan - takes the total number of Brits killed in Afghanistan since fighting started in 2001 to 270. Lt Col David Wakefield, a spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said of the soldier who died yesterday: "He died boldly taking the fight to the enemy and will not be forgotten." Meanwhile, a military policewoman was by her husband's bedside yesterday after he was badly injured in Afghanistan.
Guardsman Davie McClellan, 25, and Vicky Callard's wedding six months ago made headlines as they were both to Fake Franck Muller be deployed to the war zone. Vicky's father David said: "It looks like being a long, long road to recovery."
GORD HAILS 'BIG SUCCESS' GORDON Brown yesterday hailed Operation Moshtarak as "one of the great success stories of the campaign in Afghanistan". Addressing troops in Lashkar Gah, the PM praised the "huge advances" against the Taliban in central Helmand, where 4,000 British soldiers are involved in the assault on their strongholds. He thanked them for their "courage, professionalism and dedication" since the operation began three weeks ago. "This is an important moment, when our forces have gone in and the Taliban have run away."
he told them. The PM is in Helmand with the Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, to assess the results of the operation for himself. He was told only Diesel Watches pockets of resistance remained, and work is under way to train hundreds more Afghan police and reopen schools and health clinics.
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