Cdn. Soldier Found Dead Inside Secure Military Headquarters In Afghanistan
Posted August 29, 2007 12:00 pm.
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A Canadian solider was found dead with a gunshot wound inflicted inside a secure compound in Kabul on Wednesday. Investigators are looking into the possibility of suicide but aren’t ruling out homicide or a firearms accident.
A military statement said the soldier serving at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in the Afghan capital died shortly after 7:30am local time.
The victim had been found seriously injured in his room an hour earlier and doctors were unable to save him. Military officials ruled out any enemy action, saying the shooting occurred within the NATO compound in Kabul . “The investigation has just started and all possibilities will be considered,” said Capt. Sylvain Chalifour, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Forces in Kandahar.
The deceased’s name is being temporarily withheld at the family’s request.
In total, 70 Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002. The toll includes an accidental shooting that claimed the life of a Canadian soldier in March this year at the NATO base at Kandahar Airfield. Another accidental discharge of a weapon killed a Canadian in August last year while troops were on patrol.
In 2004, a soldier apparently shot and injured himself but the military has not officially said whether it was a suicide attempt.
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