The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - Funeral services will be held today in Ottawa for the Canadian soldier killed in Iraq last week.

Sgt. Andrew Doiron died in what the military has termed a friendly fire incident.

The funeral service will be held at Ottawa’s Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Doiron’s body was returned home on Tuesday.

He was shot and killed Kurdish troops as his special forces unit was returning to an observation post a week ago. Three other Canadian soldiers were wounded.

Doiron is the first Canadian soldier to die in Canada’s military effort in Iraq, which began last fall.