Canadian killed in Afghanistan suicide attack [View All]

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Kandahar, Afghanistan — A horrific suicide attack Friday claimed the life of another Canadian soldier in Afghanistan.

The soldier died when the suicide bomber plowed his explosives-laden vehicle into a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.

Witnesses said there was a giant blast from the bomb, followed by a huge fire. It took several hours to extract the dead soldier's body from the burned vehicle.

"The soldier was travelling in an armoured G-Wagon light utility vehicle as part of a resupply convoy heading north from Spin Boldak to Kandahar Air Field," said Col. Tom Putt, deputy commander of Task Force Afghanistan.

I suspected as much after seeing reports that a "coalition soldier" had died. And... :cry:

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