However, the soldier from the 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles, BBC quoted taskforce Helmand spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Mackenzie as saying that the soldier received a fatal gunshot wound while protecting a checkpoint.
The incident in Nahr-e Saraj takes to 383 the number of British forces killed in Afghanistan in the last 10 years.
Meanwhile, the British Embassy in Kathmandu has confirmed this casualty without disclosing the identity of the dead soldier.
It was the first fatalit in Afghanistan for almost a month. SOURCE nepalnews.com