'Green on Blue' Attack Deaths Inquest 10.09.13
10Two British service personnel were killed in Afghanistan after their foot patrol was attacked by two off-duty Afghan policemen, an inquest heard.
Cpl Channing Day, 25, of 3 Medical Regiment and Cpl David O'Connor, 27, of 40 Commando were shot dead on October 24 last year in a suspected "green-on-blue" attack in Helmand's Nahr-e Saraj district.
They had been on their way to train local police in first aid and spotting roadside bombs when their patrol came under fire near the village of Char Kutsa.
Cpl Philip Benford, who was in command of the group of eight soldiers which contained Cpl Day and Cpl O'Connor, told the inquest at Oxford County Hall how he saw two men fire at the patrol with Kalashnikov weapons.
He described how his group had arrived outside a base called Checkpoint Lamar, and how his unit came under attack as he was sending their location to colleagues over his radio.
He said: "I distinctly remember that first initial contact.
"When I span round there was another fast, furious volley of rounds and it was from a gunman who ran behind the wall."
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