4 killed on deadly day for British

HERAT, Afghanistan, May 9 (UPI) -- The British military suffered its deadliest day in Afghanistan this week when two soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber and two more in other attacks.

The deaths Thursday in Helmand Province bring the British toll in Afghanistan to 157, The Independent reported.

The bomber struck in a market in Gereshk, a town on the main road between Herat and Kandahar. He detonated his explosives next to a military vehicle, killing soldiers from the Royal Gurkha Rifles and the Royal Military Police as well as 21 Afghan civilians.

Cpl. Sean Binnie, 22, of the Black Watch, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, was shot when Afghan soldiers he was training were attacked near Musa Qaleh.

"With no thought for his own safety, he went forward to engage the enemy and get his comrades out of danger," his commanding officer, Lt. Col. Stephen Cartwright, said.

The fourth soldier was killed by a land mine near Sangin.