Update on Canadian Casualities in Afghanistan

The deadliest foe facing NATO soldiers travelling the roads of this war-torn nation claimed two more Canadian lives. A powerful roadside bomb blast hit an armoured vehicle that was part of a Canadian convoy on a road southwest of Kandahar, bringing to 129 the total number of Canadian soldiers who have died as part of the Afghan mission since it began in 2002

128. September 6, 2009: Major Yannick Pepin - age 36, 5 Combat Engineer Regiment, engaged, two children, killed by a roadside bomb blast hit his armoured vehicle.

129. September 6, 2009 - Corporal Jean-Francois Drouin, age 21, 5 Combat Engineer Regiment, killed by a roadside bomb blast hit his armoured vehicle.