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Corporal Christopher Read, 22, originally from Poole in Dorset, was injured by small arms fire while on his way back from the operation in Basra City, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

The soldier, of 158 Provost Company, 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police, was given immediate first aid and taken to the Field Hospital at the British base at Basra Air Station, but died of his injuries on Saturday.

In separate incidents, another soldier, Lance Corporal Ryan Francis, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Welsh, was killed, and two other soldiers were injured.

The soldiers' next of kin have been informed.

Lc/Cpl Ryan Francis, 23, was killed during the overnight operation when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in the Hay Al Mudhara district of Basra.

Lc/Cpl Francis, from Llanelli, south Wales, who drove a Warrior armoured fighting vehicle, died instantly in the attack in the early hours of Saturday.

The operation involved about 1,000 troops and was the largest launched by the Brigade in Basra this year.

A number of locations around the southern Iraqi city were searched and arrests were made.

Lieutenant Colonel Simon Miller, Commanding Officer 3rd Regiment Royal Military Police, described Cpl Read as a rising star and said the regiment was heartbroken.