Canadian soldier killed
Posted Jun 21, 2010 01:48:47 PM.
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Canadian soldier Sgt. James MacNeil of Nova Scotia
has died in an IED blast in Afghanistan.
The 28 year old was killed near the village of Nakhonay after he had dismounted from his armoured vehicle.
MacNeil is the 148th Canadian soldier to die in the Afghan mission.
It’s the second straight Canadian death in Nakhonay, 15 kilometres southwest of Kandahar city.
On June 6, Sgt. Martin Goudreault was on a foot patrol investigating a suspected weapons cache near the village when he was killed by the blast from an IED.
