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CTV.ca News Staff
A suicide bomber's attack on a military convoy near Kandahar, Afghanistan has left one Canadian soldier wounded along with at least five Afghan civilians.
The soldier was travelling Thursday morning in a joint Canadian-Romanian convoy headed for the Gombad area to resupply a forward base.
A helicopter removed the soldier to the main base at the Kandahar airfield. His injuries aren't believed to be life-threatening.
Earlier reports indicated there were two separate incidents, but the military later said there was just one.
"Apparently the suicide bomber hit the corner of the Canadian vehicle and did explode," CTV's Ellen Pinchuk, reporting from Kandahar, told CTV.ca. Other reports had the vehicle exploding just before it hit the convoy.
The attack occurred very near the Kandahar Gates on the outskirts of the city, she said.
"That's close to the site where diplomat Glyn Berry was killed," she said.
Berry, a 59-year-old senior Canadian diplomat, died Jan. 15 when a suicide bomber struck the vehicle carrying him. The explosion also seriously wounded three Canadian soldiers. One man, Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, eventually lost both his legs.
In Thursday's case, the convoy did not stop after the blast, witnesses said. Pinchuk said that's standard procedure in these cases because there might be a secondary bomber.
Canadian troops later helped cordon off the scene.
There has been an upswing in attacks in recent days.
The Kandahar Airfield base came under rocket fire early Tuesday. The blasts injured no one and caused no real damage.
Later that day, there were three different incidents:
Five security contractors -- three foreign, two Afghan -- were killed by a roadside blast,
Another roadside bomb killed six Afghan soldiers in Helmand province, about 190 kilometres northwest of Kandahar, and
Two potential Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Kandahar cemetery after police approached them.
Finally, a Canadian soldier died Wednesday in a major firefight with Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, about 110 km north of Kandahar.
Pte. Robert Costall, 22, died, as did one U.S. soldier. Three other Canadian soldiers were wounded.
Eight members of the Afghan National Army died in an earlier attack that day, and about 32 Taliban insurgents were killed.
The odd thing about that incident was the Taliban attacked first.
"They use classic guerilla tactics. They generally pit their strengths against our weaknesses. They attack in small numbers. What was a bit unusual about last night was that they came at such a large coalition base," Col. Chris Vernon of the British Army told CTV.
The Taliban claim they will carry out a spring offensive, although Canadian commanders scoff at that.
http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060325/Afghanistan_TEMPLATE_060325
CTV.ca News Staff
A suicide bomber's attack on a military convoy near Kandahar, Afghanistan has left one Canadian soldier wounded along with at least five Afghan civilians.
The soldier was travelling Thursday morning in a joint Canadian-Romanian convoy headed for the Gombad area to resupply a forward base.
A helicopter removed the soldier to the main base at the Kandahar airfield. His injuries aren't believed to be life-threatening.
Earlier reports indicated there were two separate incidents, but the military later said there was just one.
"Apparently the suicide bomber hit the corner of the Canadian vehicle and did explode," CTV's Ellen Pinchuk, reporting from Kandahar, told CTV.ca. Other reports had the vehicle exploding just before it hit the convoy.
The attack occurred very near the Kandahar Gates on the outskirts of the city, she said.
"That's close to the site where diplomat Glyn Berry was killed," she said.
Berry, a 59-year-old senior Canadian diplomat, died Jan. 15 when a suicide bomber struck the vehicle carrying him. The explosion also seriously wounded three Canadian soldiers. One man, Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, eventually lost both his legs.
In Thursday's case, the convoy did not stop after the blast, witnesses said. Pinchuk said that's standard procedure in these cases because there might be a secondary bomber.
Canadian troops later helped cordon off the scene.
There has been an upswing in attacks in recent days.
The Kandahar Airfield base came under rocket fire early Tuesday. The blasts injured no one and caused no real damage.
Later that day, there were three different incidents:
Five security contractors -- three foreign, two Afghan -- were killed by a roadside blast,
Another roadside bomb killed six Afghan soldiers in Helmand province, about 190 kilometres northwest of Kandahar, and
Two potential Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Kandahar cemetery after police approached them.
Finally, a Canadian soldier died Wednesday in a major firefight with Taliban insurgents in Helmand province, about 110 km north of Kandahar.
Pte. Robert Costall, 22, died, as did one U.S. soldier. Three other Canadian soldiers were wounded.
Eight members of the Afghan National Army died in an earlier attack that day, and about 32 Taliban insurgents were killed.
The odd thing about that incident was the Taliban attacked first.
"They use classic guerilla tactics. They generally pit their strengths against our weaknesses. They attack in small numbers. What was a bit unusual about last night was that they came at such a large coalition base," Col. Chris Vernon of the British Army told CTV.
The Taliban claim they will carry out a spring offensive, although Canadian commanders scoff at that.
