Canadian diplomat killed in Afghanistan

Updated: 20:25, Sunday, 15 January 2006

Canadian officials say the country's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has been killed in a suicide bomb attack that also killed two others.

Canadian officials say the country's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has been killed in a suicide bomb attack that also killed two others.

Reports say the attack on a military convoy also wounded at least 12 others.

A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the strike in Kandahar city, once the stronghold of the Islamic hardline regime that was ousted by US-led forces in late 2001.

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