Across Asia: Afghanistan
China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-19 07:42
4 UK soldiers killed
Four British soldiers have been killed in a roadside explosion in southern Afghanistan, taking the death toll since 2001 to 106, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said yesterday.
It said one of the four was believed to be a woman, the first British female soldier to have been killed in action in Afghanistan.
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