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Briton killed in Syria after volunteering to fight Isis, inquest told
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A British engineer was killed in Syria while trying to clear a house booby-trapped with bombs after volunteering to fight against Islamic State following the Manchester terrorist attack, an inquest heard.

The coroner David Horsley ruled that Ollie Hall, 24, died on active service while serving with the Kurdistan People’s Protection Units (YPG) and paid tribute to his “outstanding example of courage and self-sacrifice”.

An inquest in Portsmouth heard Hall was so angered by the Manchester bomb attack that he decided to join Kurdish fighters in Syria.

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