IRAQ: FOUR IRAQI SERVICEMEN KILLED IN ATTACKS IN BASRA, TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOMB IN BAIJI.

Record ID: 590968

  • Title: IRAQ: FOUR IRAQI SERVICEMEN KILLED IN ATTACKS IN BASRA, TWO U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED IN BOMB IN BAIJI.
  • Date: 5th February 2005
  • Summary: (BN10) NEAR BAIJI, IRAQ ( FEBRUARY 4 ,2005) (REUTERS) LV: BLURRED SHOTS OF U.S. SOLDIERS AND ARMY VEHICLES AT THE SITE WHERE THE ROADSIDE BOMB EXPLODED; HELICOPTER AT THE SITE TO EVACUATE THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS; MORE OF THE SITE (3 SHOTS) LV: HELICOPTER FLYING Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th February 2005 12:00
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  • Location: NEAR BAIJI AND BASRA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflict,General
  • Reuters ID: LVA31OTBISXIAEJ0FS8XSHWWSBCU
  • Story Text: Four Iraqi servicemen killed in attacks in Basra.



    Iraqi police said four Iraqi Army soldiers were
    killed on Saturday (February 5) by a hidden roadside bomb
    in the southern city of Basra, which has been relatively
    peaceful compared with the rest of Iraq.

    One civilian, a woman, was also injured in the attack.

    The vehicle exploded close to the Old State Buildings,
    in the Al-Hussein district, as British troops were carrying
    out patrols.

    Bomb disposal experts were sent to the scene to examine
    the device, along with British quick-response teams.

    In three separate attacks in Samarra, four other Iraqi
    servicemen were killed in the restive Sunni triangle region
    north of Baghdad, hospital sources and the Iraqi military
    said.

    More than 20 Iraqi police and soldiers have been killed
    since the election.

    Also on Saturday the U.S. military said two American
    soldiers were killed and four wounded on Friday (February
    4) in a roadside bomb near the northern town of Baiji.

    Those killed were on patrol in Humvees when the bomb
    went off.

    Another roadside bomb in the area on Saturday killed one
    American soldier and wounded seven.

    Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, at least
    1,107 American soldiers have been killed in action.

    Including non-combat deaths, the toll is at least 1,444.
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