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Inquest told of ‘concern’ over shortage of bomb detectors

Two servicemen in Afghan­istan were killed by a make-shift mine at a time when a metal detector shortage was causing “concern” in the unit, an inquest heard.

Graham Livingstone, 23, from Blackwood, Lanarkshire, and Gary Thompson, 51, of Nottingham, who were Senior Aircraftmen (SACs) in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force Regiment, died in a roadside explosion outside Kandahar Airfield, the main Nato base in southern Afghanistan.