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2013-05-01 Afghanistan

Bomb Kills Three NATO Personnel in Southern Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2013-05-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
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#1 Probably the same incident:
Two of the soldiers who died in the attack on Tuesday were Corporal William Savage, 30, and Fusilier Samuel Flint, 21, from the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Scotland (2 SCOTS).
The third was Private Robert Hetherington, 25, a reservist with the 51st Highland, 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment Of Scotland (7 SCOTS), who was deployed with 2 SCOTS.
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Military chiefs are urgently reviewing the protection offered by the Armys heavily-armoured Mastiff vehicles after three British soldiers were killed in one by a massive roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
They are the first troops to have died in one of the 23-ton personnel carriers which have withstood hundreds of attacks since they were brought in specifically to combat the threat from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in 2007.
Six other soldiers were injured by the Taliban bomb which may have contained up to 440lb of high explosives.
The blast does not appear to have penetrated the £1million Mastiffs armour.
Instead, the casualties were apparently caused by the vehicle being blown into the air and the force of the impact when it landed and rolled on to its roof.
Yesterday David Cameron confirmed he wanted defence chiefs to look into whether the right equipment was being used.
He said: We have done an enormous amount to improve the quality and quantity of protective vehicles that our soldiers use out in Afghanistan and, as I understand, it had a pretty good record of withstanding blasts from IEDs.
'Im sure well want to look at that carefully and put in place everything we can to make sure that our brave men and women have the best protective equipment they have.
The troops have said to me they were pretty satisfied with what they had, but we must always look at this.

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