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04 Nov 2009 02:37 pm
Five Brits Shot Dead In Afghanistan ...
... by a rogue Afghan policeman:
Five British soldiers have been shot dead after a rogue Afghan policeman
turned a heavy machinegun against a British training team inside a
checkpoint in Helmand Province. The soldiers, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military
Police, died in the village of Shin Kalay in Nad-e’Ali district of Helmand
Province yesterday afternoon. Six British soldiers were injured in the same
incident, several of them seriously.
One of the Grenadier Guards who died was named this afternoon as Sergeant
Matthew Telford, from the Grimsby area. A veteran of several operational
tours of duty, Sgt Telford had arrived in Afghanistan two weeks ago. He
leaves a wife, Kerry, and two sons aged four and nine.
This is the kind of story that will further undermine public support for the war at home.
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