The first British servicewoman to die in action in Iraq was named Monday with four other flight crew killed when their helicopter crashed over last weekend.Flight Lieutenant Sarah Mulvihill died in the crash in Basra, southern Iraq, along with Wing Commander John Coxen, Lieutenant Commander Darren Chapman, Lieutenant David Dobson and Marine Paul Collins, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed. Serious clashes between troops and locals erupted after the Lynx helicopter smashed into a two-storey house in the centre of the city last Saturday. An Iraqi policeman at the scene claimed it had been shot down.
An MoD spokesman said Flight Lieutenant Mulvihill, 32, was the first woman to die in action during "Operation Telic." "Another woman has died but it was not as a result of enemy action," he added.