21/06/2008 06:32. The deaths of four soldiers in a lightly armoured Snatch Land Rover in Afghanistan this week brought the total number who have died in the vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan to 34, one in eight of all fatalities.

Campaigners said Cpl Sarah Bryant, 26, of the Intelligence Corps, and special forces soldiers Cpl Sean Reeve, 28, L/Cpl Richard Larkin, 39, and Paul Stout, 31, would probably still be alive if they had been travelling in a better vehicle.

Their deaths put further pressure on the Government which now faces the prospect of being sued by some of its own soldiers' families.

Lawyer Jocelyn Cockburn of law firm Hodge, Jones and Allen, who is representing Pte Hewett's family, said: "Families feel there must be some way of changing things and they can't believe that these vehicles are... // Telegraph.co.uk