First British woman killed in Afghanistan

Story here. Excerpt:

"The first British woman was killed in action in Afghanistan in a blast that also claimed the lives of three other soldiers.
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Three of the soldiers were killed in the blast, while the fourth was pronounced dead on arrival at Camp Bastion, the Ministry of Defence said.

It is understood that the woman was serving with the Army's Intelligence Corps."

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Ed. note: Note that her gender makes her death headline news. Meanwhile, thousands of men from allied countries have been killed and at best, they get numbered.

Soldiers are soldiers, casualties all tragic. A person's sex should not matter a whit how the press treats them. Either the press needs to treat all casualties as numbers or as actual people with lives lost (I prefer that second approach), but not either-or based on the dead person's sex.