Lebanese-Canadian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan: military
A Lebanese-Canadian soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a roadside blast Sunday during a security patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Canadian military said.
The soldiers were traveling in the Sha Wali Kot district northeast of Kandahar City, where some 2,750 Canadian troops are based, when the explosion struck their armored vehicle at about 1:15 p.m. local time.
Trooper Marc Diab, 22, of the Royal Canadian Regiment Battle Group”s Third Battalion was killed.
The four wounded soldiers were airlifted by helicopter to Kandahar Airfield for medical treatment, and were said to be in stable condition. Three of them were to be sent to a medical facility in Germany in the coming days, then home.
Diab”s death brings to 112 the number of Canadians casualties in Afghanistan since the start of Canada”s combat mission in 2002, as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.