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Afghanistan/South Asia |
Bomber kills two, injures Canadian |
2005-10-06 |
KANDAHAR: Two people were killed as a suicide bomber tried to ram a car bomb into a convoy of Afghan and foreign troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing himself and a 10 year-old boy and wounding one Canadian soldier, officials said. A US-led foreign forces spokesperson said that the blast occurred outside a Canadian civilian and military reconstruction team’s office on the road leading to the airport from Kandahar. Kandahar police official Janan Khan said the attacker tried to ram the convoy, but the car bomb exploded prematurely, killing him and a ten-year-old boy and wounding a man. A Canadian soldier suffered minor burns, said Colonel Jim Yonts, a spokesman for the U.S.-led military force in Afghanistan. Canadian media however quoted a Canadian military spokesman as saying three Canadian soldiers suffered minor injuries. |
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