A Canadian soldier was in serious condition and could lose his arm after a suicide bomber demolished the armoured vehicle he was riding in Friday morning near Kandahar, the Canadian military said. Four other soldiers were slightly wounded in the attack, the second incident in as many days to cause casualties among Canadians in Afghanistan.The body of the Canadian soldier killed in a vehicle rollover Thursday, Corporal Paul Davis, was put on a military plane headed for Canada just hours after Friday's mid-morning attack.
The bombing came after soldiers at the provincial reconstruction team base in downtown Kandahar were warned that there were suicide attackers in the city looking for targets, soldiers said. “It's a suspected suicide bomber that was in a vehicle that attacked the convoy,” Lieutenant (Navy) Mark MacIntyre said from Kandahar Airfield. “The point of impact was in the vicinity, or very close to a light armoured vehicle.” At the scene, the vehicle lay shattered in two pieces 50 metres apart, with small pieces littering the road in between. The blast was marked by a large crater.
Lt. MacIntyre said the destroyed armoured vehicle was one of a convoy of four targeted by the bomber. One of the vehicles was carrying a board of inquiry looking into another suicide bombing that killed Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry and wounded three Canadian soldiers in the region last month. None of the members of the board were injured, Lt. MacIntyre said.
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