By ANTARA News,
London : A British soldier died Monday when his vehicle apparently hit a mine in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry in London said.
The soldier, from the Queen’s Royal Lancers Regiment, was killed in the explosion at about 9:00 am local time as he provided security to a supply convoy returning to Britain’s Camp Bastion base in Helmand province.
“The soldier was evacuated to the medical facility at Camp Bastion, but tragically was declared dead on arrival,” a ministry spokesman was quoted by AFP as saying in a statement.
A second soldier was injured in the blast and is receiving treatment at Camp Bastion. The families have been informed.
The incident takes the number of British personnel to die in Afghanistan since 2001 to 94 since the start of operations to oust the hardline Taliban government in Kabul in October 2001.