29/05/2009

Killed UK Servicemen Named

Two British servicemen who died within hours of one another after being injured in separate incidents in Afghanistan, have been named.

The Ministry of Defence named them as Lance Corporal Robert Richards, 24, of the Royal Marine Armoured Support Group, and 20-year-old Lance Corporal Kieron Hill, of 2nd Battalion the Mercian Regiment.

L/Cpl Richards was injured near Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, in the south of the country last week. He died at Selly Oak Hospital on Wednesday.

L/Cpl Hill was killed in an explosion near Garmsir in Helmand on Thursday.

(JM/BMcC)

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