Four Canadian soldiers, 21 civilians, killed today in Afghanistan

From the Ottawa Citizen:

Three NATO soldiers killed in a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades in southern Afghanistan have been identified as Canadian, DND reported Thursday.

Six other NATO soldiers were injured in the attack, but there was no immediate confirmation that Canadians were among them. No details on the identities of the three NATO soldiers were immediately available.

The three dead are in addition to another Canadian soldier who died Thursday when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Four other Canadians were also injured in that attack.

This is in addition to 21 Afghan civilians killed. From Bloomberg:

Twenty-one Afghan civilians and four soldiers with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan were killed today, the government and military said.

In the bloodiest incident, the civilians died and 13 people were injured in a car bombing at a market in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, Karim Rahimi, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, said in a telephone interview from Kabul. A Canadian soldier was killed in a blast and three other ISAF soldiers died later in a firefight in the same region, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization force said.

Another sad day for Canada and Afghanistan.