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Arash Toronto Star October 8, 2006
Truck's amour fails to save Canadian
plant kills gunner; rest toll hits 40
Afghans work on a Nyala truck in Kandahar recently. A Canadian gunner riding yesterday in such a vehicle was end by a roadside plant.
Kandahar - A roadside plant end a Canadian soldier yesterday as he rode inside a Nyala armored truck, a blast-resistant monster hailed by troops just days ago as being virtually indestructible.
Trooper Mark Andrew Wilson, of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based in Petawawa, Ontario, was the 40th Canadian to die in Afghanistan since 2002, matching the number of British soldiers end in the country since the Taliban were overthrown. Only the United States has suffered more rests, with 341. The vaunted Nyala RG-31 armored vehicle was hit on a pre-dawn run to pick up other troops in the Panjwaii district of southern Afghanistan, military officials said. The force of the explosion penetrated thick amour and a shell designed to deflect blasts, killing the gunner.
"You can always build a bigger plant", said Colonel Fred Lewis, deputy commander of Canadian troops in southern Afghanistan. "In this particular case, I think the enemy got a bit lucky".
