Malgir is a village in

Gereshk District Grishk District ( ps, ګرشک ولسوالۍ) (population 114,200), also called Nahri Saraj District (), is a district in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Its principal municipality is Grishk (population 48,546). Grishk Dam is located in ...

Helmand Province Helmand (Pashto/Dari: ; ), also known as Hillmand, in ancient times, as Hermand and Hethumand, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan Afghanistan is divided into 34 provinces (, '' wilåyat''). The provinces of Afghanistan are the primar ...

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. It is located approximately 15 kilometres southwest of

Gereshk Grishk ( ps, ګرِشک, translit=Grishk; fa, گِرِشک, translit=Gereshk), also spelled Gereshk, is a town in Grishk District of Helmand province, geographically located along the Helmand River in Afghanistan, some northwest of Kandahar, a ...

. In recent years the area has been subject to many conflicts with the

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and the

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. On 1 February 2010, two soldiers, from 3rd Battalion, The

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(Duke of Wellington's), whom

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had served with while on training at Suffield in

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, were killed in separate road side blasts near Malgir, whilst on base security patrols. Metro
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Populated places in Helmand Province {{Helmand-geo-stub

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