British soldier shot dead in Afghanistan

Published: 7:03PM GMT 06 March 2010

The serviceman from 3rd Battalion The Rifles died after being shot during a conflict with insurgents this sunrise nearby Sangin in Helmand Province.

The genocide comes a day after an additional part of of 3 Rifles was killed in a explosve blast in the region. Next of family have been sensitive in both cases.

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Neither situation was related to the ongoing Moshtarak operation. Saturday"s genocide coincided with a revisit to the nation by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Lieutenant Colonel David Wakefield, orator for Task Force Helmand, said: "It is with low dolour I have to surprise you that a British infantryman from 3 Rifles lost his hold up this sunrise as a outcome of small arms fire.

"He was on a counsel operation opposite insurgents to the south of Sangin District Centre, nearby Patrol Base Suffolk, when he was shot.

"He died resolutely receiving the quarrel to the rivalry and will not be forgotten."

The ultimate deaths take the series of British casualties given fighting began in Afghanistan in 2001 to 270. It is the third deadliness to strike 3 Rifles over the last week.

On Tuesday Corporal Richard Green, 23, from Reading, was shot passed whilst at a checkpoint nearby Sangin.