Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Posted Jun 21, 2010 11:26 am.
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Another Canadian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.
Sgt. James MacNeil, 28, of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, was killed by an improvised explosive device this morning near the village of Nakhonay after he had dismounted from his armoured vehicle.
It’s the second straight Canadian death in Nakhonay, 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.
On June 6, Sgt. Martin Goudreault, 35, was on a foot patrol investigating a suspected weapons cache near the village when he was killed by the blast from an IED.
MacNeil is the 148th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan since Canada’s mission began in the country in 2002.
