Rupert Hamer, The Sunday Mirror’s defence correspondent, has been killed in an explosion Saturday in Afghanistan. The Mirror’s photographer, Philip Coburn, was also seriously injured in the detonation of an IED near an US army vehicle in which they were travelling. Hamer, 39, and Coburn, 43, were embedded with the US Marine Corps when a US marine and an Afghan soldier were also killed in the blast n the Nawa province of southern Afghanistan.

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WED DEC 30 2009 — A Canadian journalist Michelle Lang and four soldier were killed by and IED detonation while traveling with a provincial reconstruction team.

Calgary Reporter Michelle Lang

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