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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 soldier died when an explosion hit a British-Afghan patrol on Monday. | |
| 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 next of kin of the soldier have been informed. The total of British troops killed in Afghanistan since September 2001 now stands at 116. |
| About 70,000 international soldiers are operating in Afghanistan, most of them deployed under the UN-mandated Isaf. | |
| Isaf spokesman Brig-Gen Richard Blanchette said: "It is with great sorrow that we must announce this brave soldier's death as we offer our sympathies to this soldier's loved ones. | |
| "We have the utmost respect and admiration for the Isaf troops who operate in this challenging environment." | |
| The death comes exactly a week after Signaller Wayne Bland, 21, from Leeds, of 16 Signal Regiment, was killed when a suicide bomber drove a car into a Nato convoy on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul. |