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Milo Boyd

Afghanistan IED amputee missed flight after airport security took away prosthetic legs

A photographer who lost both legs in Afghanistan claims he missed his flight after security staff took his prosthetics away.

Phil Coburn, a photographer with the Mirror, has spoken of the trouble he has had boarding planes and trains over the past 13 years.

He was in a US Marine armoured personnel carrier in Afghanistan in 2010 when it hit a Taliban bomb, killing The Sunday Mirror's defence correspondent, Rupert Hamer, and a US Marine instantly.

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