Sniper kills 6 Taliban in a single shot

Kabul: A 20-year-old sniper from  the UK Army killed six Taliban fighters with a single bullet when the shot hit the trigger switch of a suicide bomb vest, according to a report quoted by The Independent.

As per the report, the shot, made at a range of 850 metres, was fired by a lance corporal in the Cold-stream Guards in Kakaran, southern Afg-hanistan, in December but has only just come to light.

Lt Col Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, described what happened as British and Afghan troops engaged about 15 to 20 Taliban fighters.

“The guy was wearing a vest. He was identified by the sniper moving down a tree line and coming up over a ditch,” he was quoted as saying to The Daily Telegraph.     

“He had a shawl on. It rose up and the sniper saw he had a machine gun,”Lt Col Richard Slack was quoted as saying.

“They were in contact and he was moving to a firing position. The sniper engaged him and the guy exploded,” he added.