MONTREAL — A Canadian soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan yesterday leaves behind a pregnant wife and a 4-year-old stepson.
Quebec-based Trooper Richard Renaud, 26, was fatally wounded when a roadside bomb rocked the personnel carrier he was riding in near Kandahar city. He is the 78th Canadian killed in the war-torn country since 2002. The toll includes 77 soldiers and one diplomat.
Renaud was the ninth soldier from CFB Valcartier, near Quebec City, to die since last summer.
He hailed from Alma, a town in the Lac-St.-Jean region of north-central Quebec, and had been a member of the 12e Régiment blindé du Canada — an armoured regiment — since October 2004. It was his first regimental assignment.




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