Royal Air Force Regiment soldiers on unit in Afghanistan. Photograph: John D Mchugh/AFP/Getty Images
A infantryman receiving piece in a vehicle-mounted unit in Afghanistan was killed following an explosion, the Ministry of Defence pronounced today.
The airman, from 2 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, piece of the Kandahar Airfield Defence Force, died as a outcome of his injuries. His family have been told.
The blast happened last night in Kandahar province.
Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, orator for Task Force Helmand, said: "It is my unhappy avocation to surprise you that an airman from 2 Squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment, piece of the Kandahar Airfield Defence Regiment, was killed this dusk as a outcome of an explosion.
"He was on a mobile unit in an area about 4km north of Kandahar airport when the blast happened.
"He died you do his avocation and between his associate airmen. His scapegoat will not be forgotten."
The genocide takes the series of British use crew killed in the dispute to 264.
The MoD pronounced 231 had been killed as a outcome of antagonistic action.
A serve 33 died possibly as a outcome of seizure and non-combat injuries or accidents, nonetheless a little have nonetheless to be reserved an central means of death, a orator said.
The genocide was not related to Operation Moshtarak – a corner UK, US and Afghan attack on mutinous strongholds.
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