Two British soldiers were killed in a bomb explosion in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, the British Ministry of Defence says
These soldiers were killed in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of the southern Helmand province, the MoD says in a statement released Sunday.
The deaths were not related to insurgency activities aiming to disrupt Afghanistan's parliamentary elections, the statement adds.
According to the press release, the soldiers were part of a ground domination patrol when they were struck by an explosion yesterday afternoon.
A total of 2080 international soldiers, 337 of them British troops have been killed in Afghan war since the US-led invasion in 2001, according to the icasualties.org that tracks the death of foreign soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Britain has some 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, most of them stationed in the southern Helmand province, fighting a counter-insurgency war that is in its ninth year.
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