Article: Explosives expert killed defusing bomb in Helmand.

Summary: A British Army explosives expert was killed while trying to defuse a bomb on the last day of his tour in Afghanistan, it has emerged.

It has emerged that a British Army explosives expert was killed while trying to defuse a bomb on the last day of his tour in Afghanistan.

Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid, 30, of the Royal Logistic Corps, died near Sangin in central Helmand Province on Saturday.

His wife Christina Schmid said: "Oz was a phenomenal husband and loving father who was cruelly murdered on his last day of a relentless five-month ...

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