| The Foreign Office were yesterday trying to confirm reports that a suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed a British soldier was the work of an Algerian-born British national. The soldier killed in the attack in Kabul was a 23-year-old member of a Territorial Army battalion, the Ministry of Defence said. Private Jonathan Kitulagoda, a student from Plymouth, was killed and four other British soldiers injured in the attack near a military base in the Afghan capital. A member of the Rifle Volunteers, Pte Kitulagoda was serving in Kabul with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. The attack, claimed by the Taliban, is thought to have been carried out by a bomber who drove a taxi carrying explosives up to the soldiers’ vehicle. |