British soldier killed in Afghanistan

Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:9AMA bomb attack has killed a US-led foreign soldier in southern Afghanistan as the foreign death toll there in 2011 nears 400. The British soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device on Friday, the defense ministry said in a statement on Sunday, AFP reported. The trooper from 1st Battalion The Rifles died while on a patrol in the Shaparak area of the Nahr-e Saraj