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Afghan troop death toll overtakes Iraq

By George Parker in L’Aquila and Alex Barker and James Blitz in London

Published: July 10 2009 19:01 | Last updated: July 10 2009 23:52

The Ministry of Defence announced on Friday night the deaths of five more UK service personnel in Afghanistan, taking the total number of British troops whose deaths were revealed on Friday to eight.

As Gordon Brown warned Britain faced a “very hard summer” in the run-up to elections in Afghanistan, the new fatalities bring to 15 the number of British soldiers who have lost their lives in Helmand in the past 10 days.

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