A British soldier has died from wounds sustained in an insurgent attack on a patrol base in southern Helmand province, officials said Tuesday.
Isaf released a statement Tuesday that one of its troops died a day after an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan, but did not provide any further details.
The UK Ministry of Defence later confirmed the soldier was a British troop who was wounded in the insurgent attack on the joint Afghan and Isaf patrol base in Helmand's Nad Ali district on Monday.
The soldier, whose name was not revealed, was one of 10 UK troops injured in the blast on Monday evening, it said.
Five insurgents were killed during the same attack, which Isaf said involved a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device and small arms fire.
Members of the Afghan national security force were also injured.
The death brings the number of British soldiers killed in the Afghan war this year to three and the total killed since 2001 to 441.