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RAF veteran injured by a rocket in Iraq still finds shrapnel in body 12 years on

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An RAF veteran who was injured in a rocket attack during the “hardest fighting since the Second World War” says he is still finding shrapnel 12 years later.

Senior Aircraftman Phil Kimber was in a coma for three weeks after suffering brain injuries from the blast, which killed three soldiers in Basra, Iraq, in July 2007.

The Help for Heroes campaigner said a doctor removed shrapnel the size of a “pea” from his leg just two months ago as he admitted he was still “mentally broke”.

He said: “I got injured in Iraq, took the wrong end of a 240 rocket that exploded next to me, sustained 15 injuries, pronounced dead at the scene and was in a coma for three weeks afterwards. “Two months ago I had a lump on my leg – I had asked two doctors before

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