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March 15, 2010
Canadian soldiers repair blown-up bridge in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR
Canadian soldiers are repairing a key bridge on the road between Kandahar city and Pakistan after it was badly damaged by a suicide bomber’s blast earlier this month.
The March 1 attack on a convoy of NATO-led troops killed four Afghan civilians and one foreign soldier.
The attacker struck the convoy on a bridge spanning the Tarnak river, which is several kilometres away from Kandahar Airfield where Canadian and other coalition troops are based.
For several days, Canadian troops have been putting metal replacement pieces over the blown-up sections of the bridge.
Afghan soldiers were involved in the initial stage of bridge building, but Canadian and Afghan journalists who visited the bridge site in recent days saw only Canadian troops doing the repair work.
Canadian Press
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