Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Source: The Sun Online
A woman Army officer’s legs were shattered in the giant blast that killed a Gurkha sniper in the Afghan badlands, it has emerged.
The dead Nepalese soldier was named yesterday as dad-of-two Colour Sergeant Krishna Dura, 36, of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.
Two more soldiers were seriously wounded in Saturday’s attack, which left the woman — a captain in the Royal Artillery —- with both legs broken.
A huge homemade Taliban bomb tore the side of their 25-ton armoured Warrior personnel carrier.
It was the first fatal attack on a Warrior in Afghanistan, and took the Brit death toll in the country since 2001 to 125.
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