A British soldier was shot dead in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing to 374 the number killed in operations there since 2001, the defence ministry said. The serviceman from 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Staffords) died on a patrol with the Afghan National Army in the Nahr-e Saraj district of the troubled southern province of Helmand, it said.
Of the 374 British troops killed since operations in Afghanistan 330 were killed through hostile action.
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