UK reporter, US Marine killed in Afghan blast (AP)

January 10, 2010 3:56 pm | world

This undated photo released Sunday Jan. 10, 2010 by the Sunday Mirror shows the newspapers defense correspondent Rupert Hamer who was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan Saturday Jan. 9, 2010. An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain's military said Sunday. The Sunday Mirror's defense correspondent Rupert Hamer and photographer Philip Coburn were accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol in southern Afghanistan when the vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a makeshift bomb Saturday, the Defense Ministry said.  (AP Photo/Sunday Mirror)AP – An explosion outside a village in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. Marine and a veteran war correspondent who became the first British journalist killed in the conflict, officials said.


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