Sunday Mirror Journalist Killed in Afghanistan

A British journalist was killed alongside a U.S. marine in an attack on a military ­convoy in Afghanistan in a blast that injured several other people, including a photographer.

Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, died when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb in ­Helmand province in the south of the country. He is the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan.

Philip Coburn, a photographer with the same newspaper, suffered severe leg ­injuries and was being treated at the British military hospital at Camp Bastion in ­Helmand. He was expected to be flown to the U.K. later this week.

Hamer, who was on his fifth trip to Afghanistan, was married to Helen and had three children, aged six, five and 19 months.

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