Two British soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan have been killed in a shooting incident.
In a statement read to reporters few details about exactly how the soldiers died were given although it is understood that they had not come under hostile fire.
An ISAF spokesman said the deaths were "not the result of hostile action" and that an investigation had commenced early this morning.
A spokeswoman for the British Embassy in Kabul said that further details about the incident were expected to be released later in the day.
Another British soldier serving with ISAF was killed earlier this year in a shooting accident.
Approximately 350 British troops are based in Kabul as part of the 20 nation ISAF contingent, most of them logistics and engineering personnel.
Britain handed over command of ISAF to Turkey at the end of Afghanistan's Loya Jirga grand assembly in June and the vast majority of its troops who had been patrolling the streets of the Afghan capital headed home.
Some 5,000 ISAF troops have been deployed in the Afghan capital since last December following the downfall of the former Taliban regime. Their mission is limited to the capital.
AFP