British soldier killed in Afghanistan

A British soldier has been killed in action in Afghanistan's opium-growing south and two insurgents arrested for a blast that killed two US troopers a week ago, military forces said Tuesday. The soldier died from wounds after coming under fire in the southern province of Helmand, the British defence ministry said.
The soldier was part of a 55,000-strong Nato-led military deployment in Afghanistan. Helmand is a Taliban stronghold, with several districts out of government control and involved in opium poppy cultivation, a highly lucrative trade for insurgents.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), under which nearly 9,000 British soldiers serve, said the soldier died on Monday. The latest death takes to 35 the number of international soldiers to be killed in Afghanistan this year, according to the icasualties website that tracks casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq.