UK soldier died on 24th birthday

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6234512.stm

A British soldier fatally injured by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq died on his 24th birthday.

Corporal John Rigby, of the 4th Battalion The Rifles, from Rye in East Sussex, died from his injuries after Friday morning's attack.

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Cpl Rigby's family issued a statement, in which they revealed his twin brother was at his side when he died on Friday.

"He will be accompanied back to England by his twin brother William who is also serving in Iraq with the Rifles, and who was with him at his bedside at Basra military hospital when he died."