Five UK troops killed in Afghanistan
Five UK soldiers have been killed and eight other people injured in a single incident while serving in Afghanistan.
The soldiers were shot by a member of the Afghan police force in an area of the country called Helmand Provence.
The troops had been helping to train Afghan police officers when one of them turned on them and started shooting.
Speaking to other politicians in the Commons, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that a group called the Taliban claimed it was behind the shooting.
Mr Brown has called the deaths "a terrible loss".
A search is now underway to find the person responsible. The families of the troops concerned have been told about the deaths.
The soldiers were from the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Military Police.
92 killed in 2009
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Six British servicemen and two Afghan National Police officers were injured in the attack.
These five most recent deaths bring the total number of UK troops killed in Afghanistan to 92 in 2009.
Around 9,000 British troops are currently fighting in Afghanistan, alongside thousands more from America.
They are there to try bring peace to Afghanistan and to destroy camps where terrorists train.
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