From Calgary Herald,
VANCOUVER — A funeral service for Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, killed late last year while on assignment in Afghanistan, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Vancouver.
Lang, 34, was killed on Dec. 30 along with four Canadian soldiers when the vehicle they were in struck a makeshift bomb buried under a muddy road south of Kandahar City. A reporter with the Calgary Herald, Lang was in Afghanistan working for Canwest News Service, and was on her first patrol with Provincial Reconstruction Team “outside the wire” when she died.
Lang was born and raised in Vancouver and her immediate family still lives in the city.
Funeral services are also being held Monday in Yarmouth, N.S., for Sgt. Kirk Taylor, 28, who died in the attack.
Cpl. Zachery McCormack, 21, Sgt. George Miok, 28 and Pte. Garret William Chidley, 21, also died in the incident.
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