6 Canadian Soldiers Die in Training Blast
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VANCOUVER, Canada — Military engineering students practicing how to blow up roads set off an explosion at a demolition range Monday that killed six of the soldiers and injured three others, officials said.
“They were training on how to create craters--big holes in the road to hinder movement of vehicles”-- when the blast occurred at a Canadian military base 80 miles east of Vancouver, said Capt. Mark Perron, a spokesman at the British Columbia base.
Perron said 29 military field engineering students and seven instructors were training at the Chilliwack base’s demolition range with C-4 plastic explosives when an explosion ripped through the range. An inquiry was ordered.
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