Another Vandoo killed, 11 others wounded.

RIP Pte Jonathan Couturier, 2 Royal 22nd Regt.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...er-killed.html

Originally Posted by Gheluvelt

Another Vandoo killed, 11 others wounded.

RIP Pte Jonathan Couturier, 2 Royal 22nd Regt.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/0...er-killed.html

RIP

Lt. Justin Garrett Boyes, 3rd battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was killed by an IED blast while on foot patrol yesterday in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar. Two other soldiers were wounded. Boyes was only 10 days into his second tour and is the 132nd Canadian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/1...nistan110.html

R.I.P. Lads.

Sapper Steven Marshall, 1 Combat Engineer Regiment, was killed by an IED while on foot patrol yesterday, less than a week into his first tour of Afghanistan. He was the second Canadian to be killed this week, and the 133rd during Afghan operations.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/1...nistan193.html

R.I.P. Gentlemen.

RIP Lads, and big thanks to Gheluvelt who has helped enormously in keep up to date on this thread. Between PDT, 1yr old kid and preggers wife I sometimes do not have the time to update as quickly as I'd like.

Lt Andrew Nuttall, 1 PPCLI - KIA 24 Dec 09

A Canadian soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was on foot patrol in Afghanistan, the military announced early Thursday.

Lt. Andrew Nuttall, 30, of Prince Rupert B.C., died along with an Afghan soldier in the town of Nakhoney in the Panjwaii district of southern Afghanistan on Wednesday. An Afghan interpreter was also seriously injured in the IED attack.

Nuttall belonged to the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton. He is survived by his mother Jane and father Richard, who said they were proud of their son's decision to join the military.

"We have lost a bright light in our lives," said the family in a statement.

RIP. Thoughts with family/friends.

CTV.ca - 4 Canadian Soldiers and 1 Canadian Reporter KIA

Four Canadian soldiers, along with a Canadian reporter, were killed Wednesday by a powerful improvised explosive device in Kandahar city in Afghanistan.

The deaths occurred as they drove in an armoured vehicle through a part of the province that was generally considered safe, about four kilometres south of the city at about 4 p.m. local time.

There were five injured as well, who were taken to hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

The Department of National Defence has not released the names of the soldiers as next-of-kin are being notified.

Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, 34, has been identified as the journalist killed.

She had just been in Afghanistan for a little more than two weeks for an assignment for Canwest News Service. It was her first assignment in the country.

In total, 138 Canadian soldiers have now been killed while serving in Canada's mission in Afghanistan which began in 2002. After almost eight weeks without a fatality, five soldiers have been killed in the last week.

Lang's first article from Kandahar was on Dec. 20, 2009, with her last article posted on the Calgary Herald's website on Tuesday.

She was due to return to Calgary on Jan. 22, the Calgary Herald said.

Lang joined the Calgary Herald in 2002, after reporting at the Regina Leader-Post. She won a National Newspaper Award in 2008 for her health care reporting.

She was engaged.

Colin Perkel, a reporter with The Canadian Press in Afghanistan, described the bombing as "in a single word, stunning."

"It came in a relatively safe area, on a routine patrol, just one of those things and out of the blue," he told CTV News Channel by phone. "Everybody is quite shocked by what has happened."

The bombing occurred in a part of the city that lies just down the road from Dand district, Perkel said, which houses one of the "model villages" that Canadian troops have been focusing on.

Breaking news story. More details to follow.