In London, the Ministry of Defense said the soldier, who was attached to the 21 Engineer Regiment, was killed by small arms fire at Patrol Base Hazrat.
It isn't clear what caused the fire, but Arturo Montiel, a spokesman for the highway patrol, said the fire was concentrated in the rear of the car, and not in the engine column.
The westbound lanes of the bridge were closed as officers investigated the cause of the deadly fire, but the patrol said one lane of traffic reopened early Sunday.
In 2009, he deployed on operations "for the first time, " sent to Afghanistan's Helmand province, where he was a member of a fire support group at Patrol Base Woqab.
His son was driving his truck around a corner when suddenly he came across a U.S. foot patrol that opened fire.
They were in a fire-fight while on patrol in Helmand province in which an Afghan man, thought to be an off-duty policeman, also died.
The clash happened when a police patrol came under rebel fire in Sukma district early on Tuesday, police said.
His patrol had been under fire from insurgents for several hours on 5 August when they managed to return to their base at a checkpoint, which then came under attack.
"We were on a routine patrol when we came under enemy fire, " recalls Neathway, who is one of five injured military personnel taking part in the 2013 race.
And soon, the patrol was pinned down, taking ferocious fire from three sides.
Abbas al-Rubaie, an official with the cleric's office in Baghdad's Sadr City, said gunmen in a parked car opened fire Sunday on four militia members on a routine patrol.
"That's when the Border Patrol agents went up to the vehicle with fire extinguishers and realized there were bodies inside, clearly deceased, " the sheriff said.
The limo was carrying nine women passengers and a male driver when it caught fire late Saturday night on the San Mateo bridge, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.
Additionally, it noted that more effective body armour has contributed to "a considerable weight for soldiers to carry whilst on foot patrol, making it challenging to move quickly and freely while under fire".
Exposed and with little available cover, the patrol was totally vulnerable to enemy rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fire.
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No German soldiers or planes were involved in the airstrike, but a German patrol made it to the site about 10 hours after the attack and came under small-arms fire, the German military said.
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