Summary
Appallingly injured by a roadside bomb in Helmand, flown home to die of his wounds yesterday, one young Royal Welsh infantryman marks a tragic milestone in Britain's involvement in Afghanistan. A hole in a family's life they'll never fill 'We went in with our eyes closed and our purses closed,' says father of airman killed in 2006. 'And today - 200 lives later - they are still not open...' [Edition 4]
THE 200th British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, it was announced last night.See the full content of this document
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Soldier 200
The infantryman from The 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh regiment was badly injured by a roadside bomb while on a vehicle patrol in Musa Qa'leh in Helmand province on Thursday morning.
He was flown back to Britain for emergency treatment at the Royal College of Defence Medicine at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, but died yesterday at 5pm.No other details of the attack or the soldier's name had been released last night. His family h...See the full content of this document
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