A ramp ceremony was held at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan to bid farewell to a Canadian soldier who was killed on Saturday when an improvised explosive device went off while he was on foot patrol in the Panjwaii district in Kandahar province.
A 21-year-old soldier from western Newfoundland died Monday morning at a military hospital in Germany more than a week after he was injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
A Canadian soldier, Sapper Brian Collier, was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan Tuesday. Collier was killed while on a foot patrol in the village of Nakhonay, in the eastern part of Panjwaii District.
Master Cpl. Kristal Giesebrecht and Pte. Andrew Miller, both medics from CFB Petawawa, had been responding to a report of a mine found in the doorway of a home when their vehicle detonated the IED, the military said. The blast occurred about 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Kandahar.
Master Cpl. Kristal Giesebrecht and Pte. Andrew Miller, both medics from CFB Petawawa, had been responding to a report of a mine found in the doorway of a home when their vehicle detonated the IED, the military said. The blast occurred about 20 kilometres southwest of the city of Kandahar.
A Canadian soldier was killed Monday while on foot patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the military announced. Sgt. James MacNeil, 28, was killed at approximately 8 a.m. local time by an improvised explosive device, according to Brig.-Gen. Jon Vance, Canada’s top commander in Afghanistan.
