Truemors
AN SAS soldier from the Gold Coast has been killed and two other members of the elite regiment wounded in a Taliban roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan.
Defence chief Angus Houston today said Signaller Sean McCarthy, 25, was from the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and had been on his second tour of Afghanistan.
He was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) which also injured two other Australian soldiers and a soldier from another country at 3pm (AEST) yesterday.
He is the sixth Australian soldier to die in Afghanistan since 2002, and the second this year.
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