SIX MORE BRITISH TROOPS ARE BEING FORCED HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN DUE TO ...

World | May 16, 2002, Thursday // 00:00

Six more British troops are being forced home from Afghanistan due to a contagious fever, bringing the total returning to eight.About 350 soldiers at a medical hospital in Bagram are under quarantine while health officials investigate the cause of the illness. The fever has struck down 18 people in total and remains unidentified. But the Ministry of Defence has ruled out the possibility of it being caused by a bio-terrorist attack.

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