SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea has ordered its troops in southern Iraq to suspend their operations outside coalition bases, following a deadly suicide truck bombing in Nasiriyah, officials said Friday.
The Wednesday attack in Nasiriyah fanned fears in South Korea that its 464 troops in Iraq, most of them military engineers and medics based in Nasiriyah, might suffer similar deadly Iraqi resistance.
South Korean troops were ordered to halt a program teaching local Iraqis construction skills and withdraw into coalition bases, the South Korean military's Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a news release.
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