LONDON (Reuters) - A former British Royal Marine is believed to have become the first Briton to be killed fighting against Sunni Islamist Islamic State militants in Syria, his family and a lawmaker said on Wednesday.
Erik Scurfield, 25, who went to Syria on his own initiative as a private citizen, died after being hit by a mortar shell on Monday fighting alongside Kurdish YPG forces against Islamic State militants near Tal Hamis in northeast Syria, a Kurdish source close to YPG told Reuters.
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