Soldiers' 'Disbelief' Over Lightly Armoured Vehicles

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SOLDIERS expressed "disbelief" over the lightly armoured vehicles they were given ahead of an explosion which caused the first female casualty in Afghanistan and killed three of her comrades, an inquest heard yesterday.

Corporal Sarah Bryant, 26, of the Intelligence Corps, and Territorial Army special forces soldiers Corporal Sean Robert Reeve, 28, of the Royal Signals, Lance Corporal Richard Larkin, 39, and Private Paul Stout, 31, died in the blast east of Lashkar Gah on June 17 2008.

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Soldiers' 'Disbelief' Over Lightly Armoured Vehicles

The back wheel of their Snatch Land Rover hit a pressure-plated IED (improvised explosive device) hidden in a ditch....

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