Wednesday, April 2, 2014

British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet

Via Knuckledraggin' My Life Away

The sniper incident is one of a dwindling number of gun battles between British forces and the insurgents

A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt.

The 20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and five others around him caught in the blast.

The incident in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan happened in December but has only now been disclosed as Britain moves towards the withdrawal of all combat soldiers by the end of the year.

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