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The Commanding Officer of the Welsh Guards has been killed in action in Afghanistan - Britain's most senior war casualty since the Falklands. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 40, was blown up in an armoured vehicle by a massive hidden bomb yesterday afternoon. A second soldier died alongside him in the devastating blast and six more were seriously wounded. The high flying colonel's death is a huge scalp for the Taliban and a disaster for the Army. It caps one of the bloodiest weeks of fighting in opium-swamped Helmand province in the three year-long NATO security mission. British forces have suffered more than 25 wounded this week alone, The Sun can also reveal.