OTTAWA, Jan 15: Canada’s most senior diplomat in Afghanistan died in a suicide bomb attack on a military convoy on Sunday that killed two others and wounded at least 12, including three soldiers, according to Canadian officials. Foreign Affairs Political Director Glyn Berry “was killed in a terrorist attack on a PRT (provincial reconstruction team) convoy,” said Peter Harder, deputy minister of Canada’s foreign affairs.

Mr Berry, who previously worked in Canada’s Pakistan High Commission, was on his way to meet with a local Afghan official when he was killed by car bomb blast about one kilometre southeast of Canada’s Camp Nathan Smith, in Kandahar City, Mr Harder added. Three Canadian soldiers were injured.—AFP