British soldier killed by roadside bomb
A roadside bomb killed one British soldier and wounded three others in southern Iraq today, the British military said.
The attack occurred around 1pm local time at an junction about three miles south-east of Basra, said Katie Brown, a spokeswoman for British forces in Iraq.
The soldier was not immediately identified.
The latest casualties bring to 101 the number of British military deaths attributed to hostile action since the invasion in 2003, according to the Ministry of Defence.
Another 31 deaths were due to road accidents, illness, natural causes or unexplained causes, the ministry said – for a total of at least 132 since the beginning of the war.
Britain has about 7,500 troops in Iraq, based mostly in Iraq’s second-largest city of Basra, 340 miles south-east of Baghdad.
