Rising British Casualties in Afghanistan Sparks Growing Debate

Jul 17th, 2009 - VOA News

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Britain has suffered a sharp rise in casualties in Afghanistan with 15 servicemen killed since the beginning of the month, eight of them in one day of bloody fighting last Friday. The rising death toll has sparked renewed debate in Britain over the war and opinions are mixed. VOA reports from Wootton Bassett, a town that knows only too well the human toll of the war.

It is their final journey home. On board the Royal Air Force jet, the bodies of eight British soldiers - three of them just 18 years old - killed in just one day.

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