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KABUL, Afghanistan : Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan opened fire on a speeding car, which they feared was about to attack their convoy, and killed a 2-year-old boy and his 4-year-old sister, officials said;Monday.
NATO and the Canadian military issued statements that said the soldiers opened fire close to the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday after the driver had ignored repeated signals to keep;back.
Militants have used civilian cars loaded with explosives in suicide missions against Afghan and foreign;troops.
The car came under fire after it drove within 10 yards of the convoy, the Canadian statement;said.”

MacKay said soldiers lived with the possibility that whenever a car approached, it “may be a bomb coming your;way.
In Ottawa, Canada's defense minister, Peter MacKay, said the deaths of the two children were a “horrible circumstance” that resulted when a “horrible decision had to be;taken.
Afghan and United Nations officials have urged international troops to avoid civilian casualties, which threaten to undermine support for President Hamid Karzai and the presence of foreign;forces.”
“With these suicide bombs that have occurred in the past with these approaches,” he said, “soldiers have sometimes a split second to make a decision on protecting their fellow soldiers and protecting themselves,” or protecting civilians in the;area.
In Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, British officials said, a British soldier was killed Monday while patrolling in the Marjah area west of Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.
NATO commanders have said they take reasonable precautions to prevent civilian deaths and have blamed militants for endangering;innocents. The death brought to 113 the number of British personnel killed in Afghanistan since;2001.