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Two dead British soldiers named
Published: 6th Jun 2010 11:16:42
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan on Friday have been named by the Ministry of Defence.
They were Cpl Terry Webster and L/Cpl Alan Cochran of the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment.
The two soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with insurgent forces in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province.
Their deaths took the number of UK service personnel killed in Afghanistan to 292.
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