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The British troops death toll in Afghanistan has exceeded that of the Falklands War.The grim milestone was passed when a soldier from the 36 Engineer Regiment, part of the counter-IED Task Force, was killed by an explosion in Nad-e-Ali, Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said. It followed the deaths of two soldiers killed by a Taliban bomb in lawless Helmand Province. Their deaths brought the British toll to level that of the Falklands War.Their deaths came as a strike-force of 15,000 coalition troops - including 4,000 from the UK - braced themselves to launch the biggest offensive of the nine-year conflict within days. A total of 255 British servicemen and women have now died since the conflict in Afghanistan began in October 2001 - the same number as died in the 74-day campaign to retake the Falkland Islands in 1982.
