"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A powerful roadside bomb killed six Canadian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter Wednesday, ripping through their sturdy armoured vehicle on a gravel road in southern Afghanistan.....
The RG-31, known as a Nyala, is a South African-built armoured patrol vehicle designed to withstand ground explosions. But it was evidently unable to protect the seven killed in Wednesday's attack. The vehicle is widely used by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan......
Twenty-two soldiers have now been killed on this rotation alone; by this time last year only eight had died. Altogether, 66 Canadian soldiers have lost their lives in Afghanistan since 2002, along with one diplomat.The latest deaths occurred in an area the Canadian military has been using as an example of their mission's achievements in Afghanistan.....
Wednesday's blast is the deadliest involving Canadians since Easter Sunday, April 8, when another devastating roadside-bomb explosion killed six Canadian soldiers in what was then the worst single-day toll for the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan......"
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