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LORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail Update
August 24, 2008 at 11:34 PM EDT
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A Canadian armoured vehicle was blown off a road when it ran over an explosive device planted by the Taliban on Sunday, injuring six soldiers and two Canadian journalists.
One of the soldiers was seriously hurt. The rest of those in the vehicle walked away with scrapes and bruises and other minor injuries.
The explosion, which happened near the Demrasi area of the volatile Panjwayi district, hit a Canadian military supply convoy that was returning back to the Kandahar Air Field.
The journalists – Tobi Cohen of the Canadian Press and Scott Deveau of the National Post – had been observing a military operation in the Zhari district and jumped aboard the convoy about a half hour before the blast. They were with four soldiers inside the vehicle which rolled over when the device exploded.
A gunner who was thrown into the air was the most seriously hurt. The driver had to be cut from his seat.
The military does not released the names of injured soldiers.
Ms. Cohen said that in the confusion and panic after the explosion it was difficult to even get her seatbelt off and get out of the vehicle. And then “the fear was that we were going to be ambushed afterwards,” she said.
She took shelter in a truck and then returned back to base in another military vehicle. It was psychologically hard, she said, to travel the same dangerous road where the device had been buried.
“The concern is not about us because we're fine,” Mr. Deveau said after he arrived back at the Kandahar Air Field in a medical evacuation helicopter and received treatment for his injuries.
“The concern is about the other guys because they are messed up worse than us.”
It was the second attack on the Canadians in less than a week. On Wednesday, three Canadian combat engineers were killed and another was wounded when their vehicle ran over a similar device.
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Globe and Mail Update
August 24, 2008 at 11:34 PM EDT
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A Canadian armoured vehicle was blown off a road when it ran over an explosive device planted by the Taliban on Sunday, injuring six soldiers and two Canadian journalists.
One of the soldiers was seriously hurt. The rest of those in the vehicle walked away with scrapes and bruises and other minor injuries.
The explosion, which happened near the Demrasi area of the volatile Panjwayi district, hit a Canadian military supply convoy that was returning back to the Kandahar Air Field.
The journalists – Tobi Cohen of the Canadian Press and Scott Deveau of the National Post – had been observing a military operation in the Zhari district and jumped aboard the convoy about a half hour before the blast. They were with four soldiers inside the vehicle which rolled over when the device exploded.
A gunner who was thrown into the air was the most seriously hurt. The driver had to be cut from his seat.
The military does not released the names of injured soldiers.
Ms. Cohen said that in the confusion and panic after the explosion it was difficult to even get her seatbelt off and get out of the vehicle. And then “the fear was that we were going to be ambushed afterwards,” she said.
She took shelter in a truck and then returned back to base in another military vehicle. It was psychologically hard, she said, to travel the same dangerous road where the device had been buried.
“The concern is not about us because we're fine,” Mr. Deveau said after he arrived back at the Kandahar Air Field in a medical evacuation helicopter and received treatment for his injuries.
“The concern is about the other guys because they are messed up worse than us.”
It was the second attack on the Canadians in less than a week. On Wednesday, three Canadian combat engineers were killed and another was wounded when their vehicle ran over a similar device.
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