Taliban shot UK soldiers - Brown

Nov 4th, 2009 - BBC NEWS

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The Taliban have said they carried out the fatal shooting of five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has told the Commons.

Mr Brown said the Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to carry out the attack in Helmand province.

Earlier the UK military blamed the attack on a "rogue" Afghan policeman.

The soldiers, three from the Grenadier Guards and two from the Royal Military Police, had been mentoring and living with the Afghan police in a compound.

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