Canadian soldier wounded in ambush on joint Canadian-Afghan foot patrol

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Canadian soldier wounded in ambush on joint Canadian-Afghan foot patrol
at 15:58 on September 25, 2007, EST.
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PASHMUL, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier has been seriously wounded in an insurgent ambush Tuesday during a joint patrol with the Afghan National Police.

The soldier, whose name was not released, is part of the new Police Operational Mentoring Liaison Team doing on-the-job training for Afghan police.

The joint patrol from the Pashmul police substation in the Zhari district west of Kandahar city was ambushed with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades around 11 a.m. local time.

The soldier was evacuated by helicopter, first to Kandahar Airfield and then to a military hospital at Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, where he is receiving specialist care.

Information on the soldier's condition was not immediately available.

Another Canadian soldier was killed in the Panjwaii district, south of Pashmul, on Monday during an operation to sweep out Taliban and set up another police substation for joint Canadian-Afghan patrol.
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Soldier:
My prayers are for your full and speedy recovery and for anyone else who was injured.

 

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Soldier is doing OK.  NOK contacted & all is relatively well.
He still has all his little bits and should be on his way to Germany right about now.