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http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2009/03/20/8828541.html
Fri, March 20, 2009
Fri, March 20, 2009
Four Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
UPDATED: 2009-03-20 13:53:03 MST
By Grant LaFleche, SUN MEDIA
Four Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan yesterday.
Port Colborne resident Cpl. Tyler Crooks, 24, was killed sometime Thursday. He was based out of CFB Petawawa and had been in Afghanistan since the fall.
Crooks and three other Canadian soldiers were killed Thursday in Helmand province by a roadside bomb.
No information has yet been released about the circumstances of their deaths.
Crook's family declined to comment Friday afternoon but are expected to make a statement through the military Saturday afternoon.
This latest casualty marks the third Niagara resident killed in the war-torn country.
St. Catharines Lincoln and Welland Regiment member Warrant Officer Dennis Brown, 38, was killed March 3 in Afghanistan along with two other
Canadian soldiers when their armoured vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb northwest of Kandahar.
Cpl. Albert Storm, 36, of Niagara Falls died Nov. 27, 2006, after a suicide bomber attack.
He was a member of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, out of Petawawa.