Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Source: alalam.ir, 7-1-2008
KABUL -Two Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed when their vehicle rolled over in a village in the troubled south, the alliance said.
The accident occurred on Sunday in Zhari district of Kandahar province, a hotbed of Taliban activity, the NATO-led ISAF force said in a statement.
The Canadian defense ministry also said that the soldiers were killed during a joint operation by Afghan and ISAF forces against Taliban militants in Zherai district of the southern province.
The vehicle "rolled over during a tactical move across difficult terrain," the statement said, adding, "This incident was not the result of enemy activity."
The ministry identified one of the fallen soldiers as Corporal Eric Labbe, 31, while the name of the second deceased soldier was not given at the request of soldier's family.
The ISAF in Kabul confirmed the death of its soldiers and said that an investigation was ongoing.
More than 2,000 Canadian soldiers have been stationed in Kandahar under NATO command.
Meanwhile, two Afghan civilians were killed and five others wounded when they got caught in the crossfire between ISAF and Taliban insurgents in Trin Kot, the capital of the southern province of Uruzgan.
An ISAF convoy was struck by a roadside bomb and subsequently came under fire by Taliban fighters on January 4, an ISAF statement said, adding that the troops returned fire "in self defense."
On the following day, ISAF forces arrived in the scene for investigation and found the dead bodies of a child and an adult, while discovering that five others had been wounded, it said.
The statement claimed that "a number of insurgents were killed during the engagement," but there were no casualties among the troops.
A soldier serving in the separate US-led coalition force died in a bomb explosion last week becoming the first Western soldier to die this year after 218 foreign troops lost their lives mostly in Taliban violence in 2007.
ISAF and the US-led force have together deployed about 60,000 troops in the fight against the Taliban who are waging an insurgency which is at its deadliest phase in the past two years.
KABUL -Two Canadian soldiers with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were killed when their vehicle rolled over in a village in the troubled south, the alliance said.
The accident occurred on Sunday in Zhari district of Kandahar province, a hotbed of Taliban activity, the NATO-led ISAF force said in a statement.
The Canadian defense ministry also said that the soldiers were killed during a joint operation by Afghan and ISAF forces against Taliban militants in Zherai district of the southern province.
The vehicle "rolled over during a tactical move across difficult terrain," the statement said, adding, "This incident was not the result of enemy activity."
The ministry identified one of the fallen soldiers as Corporal Eric Labbe, 31, while the name of the second deceased soldier was not given at the request of soldier's family.
The ISAF in Kabul confirmed the death of its soldiers and said that an investigation was ongoing.
More than 2,000 Canadian soldiers have been stationed in Kandahar under NATO command.
Meanwhile, two Afghan civilians were killed and five others wounded when they got caught in the crossfire between ISAF and Taliban insurgents in Trin Kot, the capital of the southern province of Uruzgan.
An ISAF convoy was struck by a roadside bomb and subsequently came under fire by Taliban fighters on January 4, an ISAF statement said, adding that the troops returned fire "in self defense."
On the following day, ISAF forces arrived in the scene for investigation and found the dead bodies of a child and an adult, while discovering that five others had been wounded, it said.
The statement claimed that "a number of insurgents were killed during the engagement," but there were no casualties among the troops.
A soldier serving in the separate US-led coalition force died in a bomb explosion last week becoming the first Western soldier to die this year after 218 foreign troops lost their lives mostly in Taliban violence in 2007.
ISAF and the US-led force have together deployed about 60,000 troops in the fight against the Taliban who are waging an insurgency which is at its deadliest phase in the past two years.
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