Bomb that killed six Canadians in Afghanistan biggest army has seen: colonel

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http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2007/07/06/4319014.html

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Engineers who raced to the scene where six Canadians were killed in southern Afghanistan told the military they had never seen a bomb that big in their entire tour of duty.

The blast left a crater least three metres wide and a metre and a half deep, said Lt.-Col. Rob Walker, commander of the battle group in Kandahar.

“To be quite honest and truthful, when I looked at it I went `Wow, this is powerful’,” Walker said Friday.

“I knew looking at the vehicle these young men died instantly.”