LONDON - Britain's Ministry of Defence says two British soldiers have died in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
The ministry said the pair were travelling in an armoured vehicle which was hit by a blast in the Garmsir district of Helmand province.
Word of the deaths comes after a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed four American troops earlier today.
Other bombings and clashes elsewhere in the country killed at least 14 other people.
The latest British deaths bring to 152 the number of British personnel to die in Afghanistan since the U-S-led invasion in 2001.
On Saturday, another British soldier died in an explosion in Helmand, while a French soldier and five Afghan troops were killed during a clash with militants in Kapisa province.
