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Five British soldiers were killed in a shooting in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, Britain's defense ministry said Wednesday, in an attack Afghan authorities said was carried out by an Afghan policeman.The attack occurred in the Nad-e-Ali district of the country's volatile Helmand Province, and brings the number of British forces personnel who have died in Afghanistan to 229.A Helmand police official said the attacker was a policeman. NATO said the soldiers had been at an Afghan police checkpoint when an individual picked up his weapon and began firing. The alliance said the attacker's motives were unclear, and that the incident was being investigated by Afghan authorities and Britain's Royal Military Police.
