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AFGHANISTAN: SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN ATTACK December 6, 2006
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) A roadside suicide bomber targeted a Canadian convoy in Kandahar city Tuesday, leaving behind a smoking crater, scattered wreckage and two Canadian soldiers with minor wounds.
The bomber was sitting in a minivan on the side of the road as the convoy entered the outskirts of Kandahar. The force of the explosion damaged two convoy re-supply trucks and an armored vehicle. Other vehicles shuddered from the blast. Soldiers inside a Bison armored personnel carrier initially thought it had run over a landmine.
"All of a sudden there was a loud bang, everything went out and I asked if everyone was okay," said Master Seaman Eric Thiboutot, a medic who was in a vehicle behind the blast.
Cpl. Robert Chafe of St. John's, Nfld., had driven a supply truck on the route 30 times before and had never seen anything other than small-arms fire.
The attack happened on the same stretch of road where, eight days earlier, Cpl. Albert Storm and Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard were killed by a suicide bomber.