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Inquest opened into Rupert Hamer's Afghan death

A day in the life on the frontline in Afghanistan.
A day in the life on the frontline in Afghanistan.

An inquest will open today into the death of a former Wye College student and Kent journalist killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

Sunday Mirror defence correspondent Rupert Hamer died from a blast caused by an improvised explosive device last Saturday.

The 39-year-old spent time at the Kentish Express in Ashford in the 1980s.

He was on his fifth trip to the war-torn country and embedded with US Marines in Helmand Province when he died.

Photographer Phil Coburn suffered serious injuries.

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