INDEPTH: AFGHANISTAN
April 19, 2006: roadside bomb
CBC News Online | April 19, 2006
Canada's casualties: 2006
Two Canadian soldiers are airlifted to the Kandahar airfield after a bomb explodes near their convoy. An army spokesman says their injuries are "non-life-threatening." The convoy was on its way to Forward Operating Base Robinson to replace troops there when an improvised explosive device blew up near a Bison reconnaissance vehicle. The names of the wounded soldiers were not released.
Related: Roadside bomb injures 2 Canadian soldiers
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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%
(Source: CIA World Fact Book, Government of Canada)
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