Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Craig Lester and Canadian Press Friday, July 3rd, 2009 12:45 pm
Another Canadian soldier has been killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.
30 year old Corporal Nicholas Bulger was a member of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton.
The blast injured five other soldiers, but Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, who commands forces in Kandahar, escaped injury.
Bulger is the third Canadian death in Afghanistan in less than a month.
Cpl. Martin Dube was killed in an explosion June 14 while trying to defuse a road-side bomb.
The death of Bulger brings the number of Canadian soldiers who have been killed in Afghanistan since the mission began in 2002 to 121.