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Wed 11 Nov 2009Five soldiers killed in Afghanistan
An Afghan policeman has shot dead five British soldiers at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, the defence ministry in London said today.
The men, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, were killed at a police checkpoint at a military compound in Helmand province yesterday.
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