Canadian soldier dies of medical complications in Belgium

A Canadian worker deployed to Europe has died of aesculapian complications.

The Canadian Armed Forces says Lt.-Col. Kent Miller was serving successful Casteau, Belgium, erstwhile helium died Monday.

It says helium was serving nether Operation Unifier, an Armed Forces programme that trains Ukrainian subject and information unit successful battlefield tactics and precocious subject skills.

The subject says Miller was an engineering serviceman with 24 years of acquisition successful the Armed Forces.

It added that helium was astir precocious the commanding serviceman of 41 Combat Engineer Regiment successful Alberta and had been deployed to Belgium successful a readying and co-ordination capacity.

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Lt.-Gen. Steve Boivin, commandant of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, said successful a connection that Miller was a begetter and hubby and his nonaccomplishment would beryllium felt by many.

National Defence Minister Bill Blair expressed his condolences connected societal media to Miller’s friends and family, arsenic good arsenic to those who served with him.