Sniper takes out 6 Taliban militants in Afghanistan — with one bullet

A sniper with a highly accurate eye has shot and killed six Taliban militants in Afghanistan — with a single bullet — various media reported.

The unnamed star shooter is a 20-year-old lance corporal in the Coldstream Guards in Britain, The Telegraph reported.

How he killed six with a single shot is the stuff of Hollywood action movies: He set in his sights the suicide bomber’s trigger switch, The Blaze reported.

Then he hit it, from 930 yards, and exploded all six of them with a single shot.

“Lt. Col. Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, said the unnamed sharpshooter prevented a major attack by the Taliban, as a second suicide vest packed with 44 pounds of explosives was found nearby,” The Telegraph reported.

The shooting took place in December, but the sniper’s shot is only becoming public now.

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Lt. Col. Slack told The Telegraph: “The guy was wearing a vest. He was identified by the sniper moving down a tree line and coming up over a ditch. He had a shawl on. It rose up and the sniper saw he had a machine gun. They were in contact and he was moving to a firing position. The sniper engaged him and the guy exploded. There was a pause on the radio and the sniper said, ’I think I’ve just shot a suicide bomber.’ The rest of them were killed in the blast.”

That same sniper was also previously credited with killing a machine-gunner with the Taliban from 1,465 yards — his first shot on his first official tour of duty, The Blaze reported.