Army
Afghanistan Inquest Hears of Fatal Canal Crash
An inquest has heard how an armoured Ridgeback vehicle was sent plunging into a canal after it collided with an Afghan National Police car.
Four British soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire) were killed in the incident - Colour Sergeant Martyn Horton, from Runcorn, Lance Corporal David Ramsden, from Leeds, Private Douglas Halliday, from Wallasey, and Private Alex Isaac, from Wirral.
They were members of a police advisory team travelling as part of a two-vehicle convoy near Gereshk in Helmand province on June 23, 2010.
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