Kabul, February 25: Two British soldiers serving in the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) have been killed in a militant attack in southern Afghanistan.
The soldiers were on patrol in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province on Wednesday when they came under small arms fire and died, Associated Press reported on Thursday.
The latest deaths bring to 354 the number of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan since October 2001, when the US-led invasion of the country began.
The fatalities come as the Taliban have concentrated their roughly ten-year fight against the US-led forces on Afghanistan’s southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
A total of 61 foreign troops have been killed in the war-ravaged Afghanistan so far this year.
Last year, nonetheless, remains the deadliest year for foreign military casualties with a total death toll of 711. The number eclipsed the previous record of 521, marked in 2009.
Meanwhile, hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans becoming more and more outraged over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.
——–Agencies