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| Roadside bomb wounds four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan |
| 2006-06-21 |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -Four Canadian soldiers were wounded, one of them seriously, when an improvised bomb struck their armoured vehicle in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, the military said. The light armoured vehicle was hit by the device near a Canadian camp in an area of southern Kandahar province that has seen several attacks on Canadian forces, spokesman Major Mario Couture said. “One soldier is in a serious condition and the others are in good condition. Three of them have been evacuated by air to Kandahar airfield and one by road,” he told AFP. The attack was about eight kilometres (five miles) south of a platoon camp at the village of Gumbad, about 60 kilometres east of Kandahar city. Canada has some 2,300 troops in Afghanistan, mostly in the south. Sixteen Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died in the region since 2001 when US-led forces toppled the hard-line Taliban regime. |
| Posted by:Steve |