Afghan Mujahiddeen have attacked a patrol of Nato-led occupation soldiers in southern Afghanistan, killing two of them and wounding another.
The UK's Ministry of Defence confirmed that the two dead soldiers were British and that a missing fourth soldier was also presumed dead.
Mujahiddeen, armed with rocket-propelled grenades, ambushed a vehicle of the Nato-led International occupation force in the north of Helmand province on Tuesday morning.
The UK has nearly 4,000 occupation soldiers deployed in Helmand.
The attack came a day after Nato took command of the south from the US-led occupation force.
Agencies
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