Grenade attack kills US soldier north of Baghdad

Grenade attack kills US soldier north of Baghdad
Agence France-Presse
Baghdad, October 2

A US soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack north of Baghdad late on Wednesday, raising the toll to three dead in separate assaults within a span of hours, a military spokesperson said.

"A 4th Infantry Division soldier died of wounds he received in an RPG attack on his convoy which was traveling by Samarra," at 21:00 (2230 IST), the spokesperson said.

The soldier was evacuated from Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad, to a field hospital where he died, the spokesperson added.

It was the 88th death of a soldier in combat here since US President George W. Bush declared hostilities over on May 1.
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Three US soldiers die in separate ambushes
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Three US soldiers have been killed in Iraq within the space of several hours, all in separate attacks.

A soldier from the 4th Infantry Division was killed when a rocket-propelled grenade landed on the convoy he was travelling in near the Iraqi town of Samarra, south of Tikrit.

In an earlier ambush a soldier from the 1st Armored Division was killed and one was wounded in a gun attack while patrolling the Mansur district of Baghdad.

The third attack occurred in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, when a female US soldier was killed and three soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb explosion struck their convoy.

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are voting against repealing the tax cut as I read this. If I could I'd give each and every one of them a rifle and a one way ticket ti Iraq.

:grr: