The MoD said "initial reports" suggested the latest death "may have resulted from a friendly fire incident".
BBC: New British 'friendly fire' death in Afghanistan probed
Two British pilots were killed Sunday when their Tornado GR4 aircraft was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile in a friendly fire incident.
It told the story of a friendly fire incident during the Iraq war which claimed the life of a BBC translator, Kamaran Abdurrazaq Muhamed.
He was later cleared in the investigation, but was faulted for not immediately notifying Tillman's family of suspicions that it was a friendly fire incident.
Combat Outpost Tillman, named after the NFL star and special forces soldier Pat Tillman who died in an infamous friendly fire incident, was one of those closed.
CNN: U.S. withdrawal is 'tough love' for disbelieving Afghans
McChrystal describes only briefly an incident that nearly ended his career years earlier: allegations of a cover-up involving the friendly fire incident that killed football-star-turned-Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Either way, the friendly fire incident was devastating, not least to the U.S. drone program in Pakistan's tribal regions, which was subsequently suspended for almost seven weeks, one of the longest pauses in the strikes since the program started in 2004.
"I am appalled at President Bush's casual dismissal of the "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan, " Mark Ojah, a Canadian from Winnipeg, wrote from Texas.
The initial review at the scene, by Nato specialists and Afghan government representatives, concluded the shooting was not a "friendly fire" incident involving British forces.
Lance Corporal of Horse Matty Hull, 25, of The Blues and Royals, Household Cavalry Regiment, which is based in Berkshire, was killed during a suspected "friendly fire" incident on Friday.
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