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Here's the CF's version in the latest CanWest rewrite: "The Canadian military denied reports Wednesday that two Canadian soldiers were wounded in a suicide attack in Afghanistan's troubled Kandahar province. The Canadian military said that a mounted patrol was hit by a suicide bomber in a vehicle, but no Canadian personnel were injured and there was no damage to Canadian vehicles. The military said three Afghans were injured in the attack, which happened at about 11 a.m. local time Wednesday in Spin Boldak, which is about 120 kilometres southeast of Kandahar City, near the border with Pakistan. The injured were rushed to hospital by police...."
Earlier version from Agence France Presse: "A suicide car bomber rammed a NATO-led convoy in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Wednesday, causing a number of injuries, Afghan police said. A NATO spokesman confirmed a car bomb attack but had no details of casualties. Afghan police border commander General Abdul Raziq said that a Canadian NATO convoy was struck by the blast on the highway linking Kandahar city to the troubled town of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan. "Two Canadian soldiers, two Afghan civilians and two police were wounded in the suicide attack today," Raziq said. Most of the foreign forces in Kandahar are Canadian. The press office for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul said they could not confirm any casualties at this stage ...."
and an even vaguer version from Reuters: "A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of foreign troops on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, police said. The attack happened on a road leading to Spin Boldak, a town near the border with Pakistan, said border police commander Abdul Razaq, adding he had no information about casualties among the troops. "I saw smoke coming out of an armoured vehicle and wounded soldiers were shifted to other vehicles," Mohammad Yousuf, a resident of Spin Boldak who witnessed the incident, told Reuters by telephone. Both NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces operate in Kandahar province, a bastion for Taliban insurgents."
Hope everyone's OK.....
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Earlier version from Agence France Presse: "A suicide car bomber rammed a NATO-led convoy in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Wednesday, causing a number of injuries, Afghan police said. A NATO spokesman confirmed a car bomb attack but had no details of casualties. Afghan police border commander General Abdul Raziq said that a Canadian NATO convoy was struck by the blast on the highway linking Kandahar city to the troubled town of Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan. "Two Canadian soldiers, two Afghan civilians and two police were wounded in the suicide attack today," Raziq said. Most of the foreign forces in Kandahar are Canadian. The press office for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul said they could not confirm any casualties at this stage ...."
and an even vaguer version from Reuters: "A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of foreign troops on Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, police said. The attack happened on a road leading to Spin Boldak, a town near the border with Pakistan, said border police commander Abdul Razaq, adding he had no information about casualties among the troops. "I saw smoke coming out of an armoured vehicle and wounded soldiers were shifted to other vehicles," Mohammad Yousuf, a resident of Spin Boldak who witnessed the incident, told Reuters by telephone. Both NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces operate in Kandahar province, a bastion for Taliban insurgents."
Hope everyone's OK.....
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