Three British Soldiers Murdered In Afghanistan Over A Bottle Of Water

Major James Joshua Bowman, Lieutenant Neal Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun Photo: PA

Afghanistan: Three British Soldiers Murdered Over A Bottle Of Water -- The Telegraph

Three British soldiers were murdered by an Afghan colleague weeks after a row over a water bottle led to the vandalism of a Gurkha religious shrine, an inquest has heard.

The deaths of Major James “Josh” Bowman, 34, Lt Neal Turkington, 26, and Cpl Arjun Purja Pun, 33, of 1st Bn The Royal Gurkha Rifles, also came a few weeks after a Gurkha accidentally shot dead an Afghan soldier.

Sgt Talib Hussein used a Minimi light machine gun, rocket-propelled grenade and M16 rifle to shoot the British soldiers at 2am as they slept or worked in the operations room. Four soldiers were also wounded.

The inquest heard that an Afghan soldier had been disciplined after he had been caught by a Gurkha officer taking a bottle of cold water from a fridge.

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My Comment: War sometimes brings out the best in people .... and (in this case) the worse.