The Defense
Ministry said the solder was from The Highlanders, 4th Battalion The Royal
Regiment of Scotland.
It said
the soldier had suffered gunshot wounds, but his exact cause of death was still
to be established.
British
Prime Minister David Cameron, on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, was forced on Monday to scrap a visit to an Afghan
town he had held up as an example of improved security after the soldier went
missing in the area.
Cameron
said he had cancelled a planned trip to the town of Lashkar Gah, where Britain
is handing over control of security to Afghan forces, so British helicopters
and ground forces could continue their hunt.
“I
arrived here today and received the news about this very worrying incident of a
British soldier going missing in central Helmand,” he told reporters after he
arrived on a Royal Air Force plane at the Camp Bastion base.
