Three Canadians Killed in Afghanistan
by C. L. Cook
Canada's state media is reporting three Canadian soldiers were killed today when their vehicle encountered a roadside bomb. The three deaths bring to 100 the number of Canadians killed in Afghanistan since 2002.

The Canadian Broadcast Corporation says Cpl. Robert McLaren, Pte. Demetrios Diplaros, and Warrant Officer Robert Wilson, all based in Petawawa, Ontario, were killed near Kandahar when their armoured patrol vehicle was struck, around 9am local time this morning.

Prime minister Stephen Harper expressed condolences to the families of the men, saying;

"Bases like this are tight knit. They are an extended family in every sense of the word; this family suffered a terrible loss, three terrible losses."

The deaths are the first since early September, when another so-called improvised explosive device (IED) killed Sgt. Scott Shipway.

In an unrelated event, two Canadians on foot patrol were wounded, one seriously, in an explosion in Zhari province, not far from the IED attack.