INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN
March 30, 2006: suicide attack
CBC News Online | March 30, 2006

Canada's casualties: 2006

A Canadian soldier and six civilians are wounded by a suicide car bomber in Kandahar. The soldier is airlifted to the main coalition airbase outside the city with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.

The suicide bomber was heading toward a military convoy when his vehicle exploded. Shir Shah, Kandahar city's district police chief, says the target was the convoy, which included Canadian and Romanian soldiers heading to Gombad with supplies.

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Capital: Kabul

Area: 647,500 km sq. (same size as Manitoba)

Population: 28,513,000 (2004)

Head of State: Hamid Karzai

Unemployment: 78%

GDP (2003): $20 billion US (est.)

Exports to Canada (2003): $618,889

Imports from Canada (2003): $9 million

Median Age: 17.5

Life expectancy at birth: 42.46

Ethnic groups: Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%

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