Ahmed Methqal, a Muslim cleric in the camp, told al-Jazeera television by phone that sniper fire had confined the camp's approximately 30, 000 residents to their houses and that five civilians had been killed.

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Pte Wood and Pte Hutchinson, both of the Royal Logistic Corps, were killed in a fire at Camp Bastion - the main British military base in Afghanistan.

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The fire crew was attacked on Wednesday night by youths when they answered a call to deal with rubbish on fire on the Monagh by-pass near a camp occupied by travelling families.

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Before long we emerge into a football-field-sized clearing known as Spa Camp, which is equipped with a few old shelters, a fire pit, and an ancient outhouse.

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