IRAQ: TWO U.S. SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED WHEN THEIR CONVOY STRUCK AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON A BRIDGE

Record ID: 648925

  • Title: IRAQ: TWO U.S. SOLDIERS WERE WOUNDED WHEN THEIR CONVOY STRUCK AN EXPLOSIVE DEVICE ON A BRIDGE
  • Date: 9th September 2003
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 8, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV POLICE AND MILITARY VEHILES ACROSS ROAD AT SCENE OF EXPLOSION; SLV U.S. SOLDIERS IN ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIERS AT SCENE OF EXPLSION; SCU ARMED U.S. SOLDIER IN FRONT OF BARRIER AT SCENE 2. SLV BRIDGE, IRAQIS AND SOLDIERS; HAS U.S. SOLDIERS INSPECTING AREA UNDER BRIDGE; SLV STREET SCENE 0.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA89OUO1Q1Q0U83PPHWBVTFRO7Y
  • Story Text: Two U.S. soldiers were wounded when their convoy
    struck an explosive device on a bridge in central Baghdad.

    Two U.S. soldiers were wounded on Monday (September
    8) when their convoy struck an explosive device on a bridge
    in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

    The U.S. Army convoy was heading over the Jamhuriya
    Bridge which spans the Tigris river when it hit an
    explosive device at around 7:30 a.m. (0330 GMT), a
    spokesman said. "It damaged two Humvees. One of the
    Humvees
    overturned," the spokesman said, adding the wounded had
    been evacuated for treatment.

    It was the latest in daily guerrilla attacks on U.S.

    soldiers in Iraq which Washington blames on fighters loyal
    to ousted leader Saddam Hussein. Sixty-seven U.S. and 11
    British soldiers have been killed since President George W.

    Bush declared major combat over on May 1.


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