Last updated at 9:09 AM on 5th June 2010
The men, from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, attached to The Royal Gurkha Rifles Battle Group, died in small arms fire in a battle with Taliban soldiers in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand, yesterday afternoon.
Their families have been told.
Loss: Two British soldiers from 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, were killed in a firefight in Helmand (file picture)
Task Force Helmand spokesman Lieutenant Colonel James Carr-Smith, said: 'It is with deep sorrow I must inform you that two soldiers from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, part of 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles Battle Group, were killed by small arms fire yesterday afternoon in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand.
'They will be sorely missed and we will remember them.'
The number of British troops who have died since the mission in Afghanistan began in 2001 now stands at 292.
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