KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - One Canadian soldier has been killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb attack north of Kandahar.
The attack that killed Trooper Marc Diab, 22, happened in the southern Shah Wali Kot district, a mountainous region and known transit point for Taliban fighters entering the province.
His armoured vehicle was on patrol when it struck a large explosive around 1:15 p.m. Kandahar time.
Diab, a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, is the 112th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan since 2002.
All four wounded soldiers are reported in stable condition and each of them will be evacuated to a U.S. army hospital in Germany for further care.
Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, the commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, paid tribute to Diab, saying the young soldier died in "pursuit of a noble goal" -- the desire to transform an unstable and impoverished country into a secure and self-sufficient nation.
