30 December 2009
Michelle Lang
Explosion
Michelle Lang, a 34-year-old reporter with the Calgary Herald, was killed by a roadside bomb while embedded with Canadian troops around Kandahar city.
Lang was travelling in an armoured vehicle with a provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar when she was killed. The attack took place near Dand district.
The soldiers' vehicle was apparently travelling on an unpaved road near the farming village of Qassam Pol, about four kilometres south of Kandahar city when the blast occurred around 4 p.m.
Michelle Lang is the first Canadian journalist killed while participating in the military's media embedding program in the country.
Ms. Lang had been in Afghanistan for just over two weeks. She was an award-winning health reporter. It was her first assignment to Afghanistan.
