In Afghanistan, another international journalist has been killed while embedded with US troops. Rupert Hamer, the defense correspondent for the Sunday Mirror of London, died on Sunday in a roadside bomb attack in Helmand Province. The blast also killed a US Marine and an Afghan soldier. A photographer for the Sunday Mirror, Philip Coburn, was injured in the attack and is in serious but stable condition. Rupert Hamer is the second Western journalist to have been killed on an embedded assignment in the past two weeks. Michelle Lang, a Canadian reporter from the Calgary Herald newspaper, died on December 30. In all, eighteen journalists have been killed since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but Lang and Hamer are the first journalists of the war to die while embedded with US or allied troops.