Lucky escape from Taliban bullet for soldier

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Lucky escape from Taliban bullet for soldier

Mon Apr 20, 12:51 PM

LONDON (AFP) - A British soldier in Afghanistan was dubbed the luckiest man in

the military on Monday after a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet -- and he lived

to tell the tale.

Private Leon , 32, was manning a machine gun during fighting in a village

west of Lashkar Gar, southern Afghanistan, on April 10 when he was shot at, the

Sun newspaper in London reported.

The AK-47 bullet -- which entered one side of his helmet and came out 10

centimetres (four inches) away -- missed his head by a few millimetres, passing

through a forehead pad instead.

" They tell me I'm the luckiest soldier in the army, " the reservist, who is an

electrician in civilian life, was quoted as saying.

" And looking at the holes in my helmet, they must be right. "