OTTAWA (AFP) - An American soldier has died in Canada's western Alberta province during a joint Canada-US military exercise, a US Army spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday.

"We had an incident," said Major Hillary Luton. "An American aviation unit based out of Washington state and a Canadian unit were doing a joint training exercise called Maple Guardian."

"That's when we had an accident yesterday that resulted in the death of one of our soldiers," she said.

The 25-year-old army reservist was not immediately identified.

According to reports, he was practicing flying Chinook helicopters at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) east of Edmonton, but Luton said he was on the ground at the time of the accident.

More details of his death would be released Wednesday morning after his family had been officially notified, she said.

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