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| A British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan after insurgents attacked a patrol, Nato's International Security Assistance Force has said. | A British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan after insurgents attacked a patrol, Nato's International Security Assistance Force has said. |
| The next of kin of the soldier have been informed. The total of British troops killed in Afghanistan since September 2001 now stands at 116. | |
| The death comes a week after Signaller Wayne Bland, 21, of Leeds, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. | |
| About 70,000 international soldiers are operating in Afghanistan. | |
| A statement from the UN-mandated Isaf in the Afghan capital Kabul said: "A British Isaf soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan when insurgents attacked a patrol on 18 August." |