Two more UK troops have died in separate attacks in Helmand province in Afghanistan, the eighth and ninth soldiers to be killed this month.
One soldier was killed in an explosion and the second died from a gunshot wound. Their next of kin have been informed, the Ministry of Defence said.
The soldiers, who died on Thursday, were from 4th Battalion The Rifles and Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
The number of UK soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 is now 178.
The soldier from 4th Battalion The Rifles was killed in a blast while on foot patrol near Nad Ali on Thursday afternoon.
The soldier from Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, attached to 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was killed during an engagement with insurgent forces near Lashkar Gah on Thursday evening.
The latest deaths bring the toll in Afghanistan to just one short of the 179 personnel killed during the British operation in Iraq, which has now ended.
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