Kabul, August 09: Britain’s Ministry of Defence says one of its soldiers has been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan.
The soldier died on Saturday during a foot patrol in the southern province of Helmand. The death raises the number of international troops slain in August to 20.
Thousands of additional British forces and US Marines have been deployed to southern Afghanistan — the Taliban’s heartland — in an attempt to shake militant control and enable August 20 Presidential Elections to take place.
According to military reports attacks killed at least 75 troops from the US and other international military forces in July, the highest death toll for a single month since 2001.
–Agencies