OTTAWA – The remaining three Canadian soldiers killed in the suicide attack that occurred on September 18 in Afghanistan are:
Corporal Glen Arnold from 2 Field Ambulance based in Petawawa, Ontario;
Corporal Shane Keating of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba; and
Corporal Keith Morley, of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry.
Private David Byers, also of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was the fourth soldier killed in the attack.
The four soldiers were killed, and a number of others injured, when a suicide bomber, travelling on a bicycle, detonated his bomb near Canadian troops on foot patrol in the Panjwayi district, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
The attack occurred at approximately 9:30 a.m. Kandahar time, about 30 km west of Kandahar City. A number of civilians, including children, were also injured in the attack.
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Photographs of all soldiers killed in the attack are available on the Combat Camera website (search under last name) at: http://www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca/
