A Nepalese Gurkha soldier serving in the British army has died in hospital a year and a half after being injured in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, defence officials in London said Tuesday.
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For generations in villages across Nepal’s Himalayas, young men and boys left their sleepy hamlets to become laures or bharti hune (recruits).
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Two years ago actress Joanna Lumley helped Gurkhas who retired before 1997 win the right to settle in the UK. Gurkha welfare groups and the Home office estimate that about 8,000 former soldiers and their families have since moved to Britain. But many have struggled in the UK, as the BBC's Alastair Lawson reports.
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