Two Canadian soldiers were wounded overnight in a roadside bomb blast along a new two-lane highway being constructed in southern Afghanistan, a military official told AFP on Tuesday.
"Two Canadian soldiers were injured as a result of an anti-personnel mine strike along route Summit in the Pashmul area at approximately midnight local time (2000 GMT Monday), about 25 kilometres west of Kandahar," army spokeswoman Karen Johnstone said.
One soldier suffered "serious but ... non-life-threatening" injuries. The other "appeared to have suffered light wounds and will soon return to duty."
Both were evacuated by helicopter to the Kandahar airfield for medical treatment, she said.
They were conducting "routine operations" between Zhari district and Bazaar-e-Panjawyi, where a new two-lane road is being constructed by Canadian Joint Task Force and others to assist the local population, the spokeswoman said.
Canada has about 2,500 soldiers hunting down former Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in southern Afghanistan, and helping to rebuild the war-torn nation.