Commander: 'maps not updated'
Updated on 07 October 2008
A commander tells the inquest into the death of a soldier in Kajaki Dam, Afghanistan, that he would have stopped the patrol going out. Emily Reuben reports.
On the 6th September 2006 a group from the 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment were on patrol near the Kajaki Dam, in Helmand province, Afghanistan, when they encountered an unmarked minefield.
Yesterday their platoon commander claimed that he had identified that there was a risk of mines three months earlier, but maps had not been updated. He told the inquest he would have stopped the patrol going out if he had been informed of their deployment, as he knew there were mines in the area.
Corporal Mark Wright was killed by a mine after trying to save the life of one of his colleagues who had been injured in another explosion.
