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Part 1: Friendly fire killed SAS hero
Sergeant Matt Tonroe was not killed by a roadside bomb but by a colleague's explosives
Sgt Matt Tonroe was killed in Syria on March 29, 2018

THE only British soldier to be killed fighting Isis was hit by friendly fire and not a roadside bomb, the Morning Star can exclusively reveal.

Sergeant Matt Tonroe tragically died last March while on a joint operation with US special forces to capture an Isis terrorist in Manbij, northern Syria.

A US commando, Master Sergeant Jonathan J Dunbar, was killed in the same incident.

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