British serviceman killed in Helmand

Another British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan as the death toll for the US-led troops continues to rise and set new records.

The soldier, from 1st Battalion the Mercian Regiment, was killed on Saturday in Nahr-e Saraj in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, AFP quoted the Ministry of Defense in London as saying.

The soldier was targeted by a bomb attack following a security patrol.

The latest incident brings the death toll for British troops in the war in Afghanistan to 295.

In a separate incident earlier on Saturday, a Polish soldier was killed in a bomb attack in the eastern province of Ghazni.

He was the 28th foreign serviceman killed in Afghanistan over the past week.

About 260 foreign soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan so far this year.