The remains of another Canadian soldier are on the way home from Afghanistan, though few details have been released about the circumstances of his death.
Bombardier Jeremie Ouellet, 22, was found dead in his sleeping quarters at Kandahar Airfield on Tuesday, within just weeks of his arrival to Afghanistan.
On Wednesday during a sombre ramp ceremony his flag-draped coffin was loaded on a Canadian transport flight for the trip home.
Military officials have said Ouellet's death was not combat related, but few other details have been released -- a fact that Maj. Pierre Bergeron, the senior chaplain for soldiers in Afghanistan, touched on during the ceremony.
"There are deaths that are easier than others to understand and accept; then there are deaths that leave us with many questions, and this may be the case for some of us," he said.
"But today is not the day for questions and answers, but rather a time to grieve with each other and to let the family know that we care and share their loss."
The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service -- which investigates crimes involving Canadian military personnel -- is looking into Ouellet's death. No further information is expected until the probe is complete.
He is the 80th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan.
Soldier injured
Meanwhile on Wednesday, a Canadian soldier was wounded and a civilian was killed when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near a Canadian convoy.
The explosion destroyed a Humvee military vehicle, according to a report from The Associated Press.
A passing truck driver was killed in the blast.
The Globe and Mail's Oliver Moore, reporting from Kandahar, told CTV's Canada AM that military officials were treating the incident as a suspected suicide attack "but locals are a little more cynical, they're saying it's a definite suicide bombing."
He said the Canadian was "very lightly injured," and even returned to work later Wednesday.
There were differing reports about how many people were wounded in the attack. An Afghan police officer told AP that two Canadian troops were hurt, along with the two others.
However, Capt. Mark Gough, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said only one ISAF soldier -- presumably the Canadian -- suffered minor injuries.
Lt.-Cmdr. Pierre Babinsky, a spokesperson for the Canadian Forces, would only confirm there had been an attack on a convoy.
Journalists and police were kept away from the scene by NATO soldiers, so it was not immediately possible to sort out the discrepancy in the numbers.
