Jul 10th, 2009 - Telegraph
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Five troops died in an ambush when they were hit by a "massive explosion", and three others were killed in separate incidents involving the Taliban.
Fifteen British service personnel have now died in Afghanistan in the last 10 days. The deaths bring the British toll in Afghanistan to 184, five more than the total killed in Iraq during the six years that British forces operated there.
News of the latest casualties came at the end of a week in which Britain's eight-year military mission in Afghanistan faced greater scepticism than ever before.
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