Fifth Canadian soldier dies from wounds in army training shooting
A fifth Canadian soldier has died from injuries sustained in a grass fire due to strong winds during a military exercise in the past.
A fifth Canadian soldier has died from injuries sustained in a grass fire during a military exercise last month.
Private William Douglas Dal Bianco died Friday at a hospital in Ontario, where he was being treated after a fire on October 17 at Wainwright Army Base.
About 84 soldiers from the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry were conducting offensive drills as winds spread flames from a grass fire toward troops at a base southeast of Edmonton.
The military said Saturday that 24 soldiers remain hospitalized.
Military police are investigating the fire, and a separate investigative commission will examine the circumstances of the tragedy. Prime Minister Mark Carney called the fire one of the worst peacetime tragedies for the Canadian military on Canadian soil.
