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Post by Frenchie on May 10, 2009 16:47:21 GMT 1
Senior Army officers have pledged to "get on with the job" after four soldiers killed in one of the bloodiest days for UK forces in Afghanistan were named. The men died in three separate incidents in Helmand province on Thursday - taking the death toll since operations began in 2001 to 157. Tributes were paid to the dead soldiers as their commanding officers pledged to fight on - and their fellow soldiers returned to action. In one incident, Sergeant Ben Ross, 34, from 173 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment, Royal Military Police, and Corporal Kumar Pun, 31, from the 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles, were killed by a suicide bomber during a patrol in Gereshk. Defence Secretary John Hutton said the men "died at the spearhead of operations fundamental to the UK's mission in Afghanistan" and praised their dedication, professionalism and fierce bravery. Liverpool Echo >>
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