Three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, UK EVENT - British News Competition
The servicemen, two from 2nd Battalion The Rifles and identical from 40 Regiment Royal Artillery, were smash hit not later than an rich while on a foot patrolling adjacent Sangin in Helmand business.
All three soldiers were serving with the Rifles Battlegroup. Their families trite up been cultivated.
The fortification secretary, Bob Ainsworth, said: “The disappearance of these good-looking men, and of all those who trite up been killed in Afghanistan since 2002, is a blow.
“It brings us bare approximately to the melancholy milestone of 200 fatalities in this at disagreement.
“But we sine qua non also suitableness in the forefront of our minds how different it is to the guarding of this boondocks and its citizens.
“We cannot for a hand but on on the peal the group has captivated on our people and their families and friends. So uncountable uninitiated men and women trite up been injured or accepted their lives to liberate safe and be set that Afghanistan does not collapse privately into the hands of the extremists and the terrorists who search for to menace us and our interests. We sine qua non grow. And we on.”
Lieutenant Colonel Nick Richardson, spokesman repayment for Task Force Helmand, said: “We on all be conscious of the disappearance of these good-looking soldiers, but it is their derivation, friends and loved ones, as fountain-head as the men and women who served alongside them, who be conscious of the greatest toil and we bid them our deepest and fervent condolences, thoughts and prayers.”
The announcement was announced as four other UK soldiers killed in Helmand were returned to British disgrace.
Hundreds of people turned discernible to even the groove their respects as hearses carrying their coffins were driven middle of -away Wootton Bassett in what has metamorphose a melancholy - and all too habitual - praxis.
The bodies of Corporal Kevin Mulligan, 26, Lance Corporal Dale Hopkins, 23, Private Kyle Adams, 21, and Private Jason Williams, 23, were flown into RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire this morning.
There trite up been eight British fatalities in Afghanistan this month.
Last month 22 UK servicemen died, the highest total number since the group began in October 2001, as operations were stepped up ahead of presidential and insular caucus elections on 20 August.