Three British Soldiers Killed By Taliban Bomb Were On Patrol In Armoured Mastiff Sent To Afghanistan To Protect Troops From IEDs
* Soldiers were travelling in armoured vehicle brought in to protect troops
* Massive blast hurled 15-tonne Mastiff into air, flipping it onto its roof
* Trio evacuated by air to hospital at Camp Bastion but could not be saved
* Soldiers were serving with The Royal Highland Fusiliers in Helmand
* It is first time troops have died in a Mastiff which was introduced in 2009
* Biggest single loss of life since six soldiers were killed by bomb last year
* A total of 444 British troops have been died in Afghanistan since 2001
* David Cameron says UK had paid a 'very high price' during conflict
Three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when an armoured vehicle introduced to protect troops was devastated by a huge roadside bomb.
Six other servicemen were injured - but escaped alive - when the Taliban blast hurled their 15-tonne Mastiff several metres into the air during a patrol in Helmand Province.
The explosion ripped through the personnel carrier, flipping it onto its roof as it crashed to the ground, while it travelled on a hard-top road five miles north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
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