British journalist killed in Afghanistan

A journalist for Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence has announced. The reporter, Rupert Hamer, was accompanying a patrol to the northwest of Nawa in Helmand province when the vehicle he was in struck an improvised explosive device. Sunday Mirror photographer, Philip Coburn, was wounded in the attack and remains in a stable but serious condition, it said. Both Mr. Hamer and Mr. Coburn were embedded with the U.S. Marine Corps. One U.S. Marine and a member of the Afghan National Army were also killed in the explosion.