By KUNA
London : A British soldier has been killed and five injured in a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the UK Ministry of Defence said Monday.
— The five other British casualties were taken by helicopter to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) medical centre at Camp Bastion and Kandahar airfield.
No other details concerning their injuries were released.
All the service personnel involved were from the Royal Yorkshire’s 2nd Battalion.
The company were engaged in operations around two miles north east of the southern Afghan town of Musa Qala at the time of the incident, the Ministry of Defence added.
It said they were disrupting enemy forces and reassuring local Afghans when their vehicle was struck.
The number of British military deaths in Afghanistan since the start of operations in November 2001 now stands at 87.
Around 7,200 British soldiers are deployed in Afghanistan, the majority in the dangerous Helmand province.