Two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

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Source: Reuters

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Two Canadian soldiers and an interpreter were killed and two journalists injured on Wednesday during an attack in southern Afghanistan, the Canadian military said.

The soldiers and journalists from Radio-Canada, the country's French-language public network, were on a patrol that was returning from a mission west of Kandahar when a roadside bomb exploded, officials said.

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Canada has some 2,600 soldiers based in the Kandahar region in an operation that has become increasingly unpopular at home. Sixty-nine Canadian soldiers have been killed since the NATO-lead operation began.



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