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December 31, 2009

Roadside Bombing Kills Four Canadian Troops and Canadian Journalist
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In a separate incident in Afghanistan, four Canadian troops and a
Canadian journalist were killed Wednesday. They died when their armored
vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Kandahar province. The
journalist was identified as thirty-four-year-old Calgary Herald
reporter Michelle Lang. She was on on her fist assignment in Afghanistan
and had only been in the country since December 11. She’s the first
Canadian journalist to die in the Afghan war and is believed to be the
first Calgary Herald reporter ever killed on the job in the paper’s
126-year history.

Calgary Herald Editor Lorne Motley: “She was the person that you could
always look to to be an example and to take things and make them
special, because she was a special person. And we really feel for her
family and her fiancé and her friends, obviously, whether they’re in the
newsroom or elsewhere."



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