http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/14/content_4179632.htm FALLUJAH, Iraq, Feb. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- A car bomb blew up early Tuesday near a U.S. military patrol outside the flashpoint city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, destroying a U.S. Humvee, witnesses said.
"A powerful blast caused by a car bomb struck a U.S. military patrol on the highway to the west of Fallujah, destroying a U.S. Humvee," the witnesses, who refused to be named, told Xinhua.
They said it was not clear whether there was any casualties among U.S. soldiers, adding after the blast, the U.S. troops blocked the highway for more than one hour, preventing people from approaching the scene.
Elsewhere on the same day, a roadside bomb hit another U.S. patrol in the Husayba al-Sharqiyah, a town in eastern Ramadi, some110 km west of Baghdad, local residents told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
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