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Captain Stephen James Healey is the 415th British serviceperson to die during Afghan mission.

28 May,2012 09:56 am

A British soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Sunday.Captain Stephen James Healey of the 1st Battalion The Royal Welsh regiment, was conducting a vehicle patrol in the north of the Nahr-e Saraj District in Helmand Province on Saturday when his vehicle struck the device.Healey is the 415th British serviceperson to die since the military mission in Afghanistan started in 2001.Britain has some 9,500 troops in Afghanistan, mainly based in Helmand where they are battling a Taliban insurgency. Britain intends to pull out all its combat troops by 2015.