April 28 (Reuters) - A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday. The soldier, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed while on foot patrol alongside the Afghan National Army near the Forward Operating Base Keenan, north east of Gereshk, in Helmand province. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since 2001: NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES: Britain 153 Canada 118 Denmark 22** France 27* Germany 30 Spain 25 Netherlands 19 United States 679 Other nations 64 TOTAL: 1,137 NOTES: ** Figures supplied by Danish Central Command, includes one suicide. * Figures supplied by French military. Sources: Reuters/icasualties (www.icasualties.org/oef), compiled from official figures. (Writing by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;)
Afghan men remove destroyed furniture from the governor's compound after an attack by suicide bombers in Kandahar province April 25, 2009. Three suicide bombers struck the governor's compound of Afghanistan's southern ...
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