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Nine US soldiers killed in Iraq blasts
BAGHDAD (updated on: March 06, 2007, 13:01 PST): Nine American soldiers from the same command were killed and four more wounded in a single day in two attacks on their convoys in northern Iraq, the US military said on Tuesday.
In one attack on Monday in Salaheddin province, six soldiers from Task Force Lightning died "as a result of injuries sustained following an explosion near their vehicles" and three more wounded, a statement said.
Separately, three more Task Force Lightning troops were killed and one more wounded in a similar attack on the same day in Diyala Province, north of Baghdad, another statement said.
The US army's Task Force Lightning is based in Tikrit, the former hometown of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and patrols a wide area of northern Iraq rife with Sunni armed groups.
The deaths brought to 3,179 the US military's losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
brecorder.com
BAGHDAD (updated on: March 06, 2007, 13:01 PST): Nine American soldiers from the same command were killed and four more wounded in a single day in two attacks on their convoys in northern Iraq, the US military said on Tuesday.
In one attack on Monday in Salaheddin province, six soldiers from Task Force Lightning died "as a result of injuries sustained following an explosion near their vehicles" and three more wounded, a statement said.
Separately, three more Task Force Lightning troops were killed and one more wounded in a similar attack on the same day in Diyala Province, north of Baghdad, another statement said.
The US army's Task Force Lightning is based in Tikrit, the former hometown of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and patrols a wide area of northern Iraq rife with Sunni armed groups.
The deaths brought to 3,179 the US military's losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
brecorder.com
