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Article: UPI NewsTrack TopNews, Spain buries its Iraq dead.
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- December 2, 2003
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MADRID, Dec 02, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX)
Spain observed a day of mourning Tuesday as seven of its intelligence agents killed in Iraq were laid to rest in ceremonies attended by the king and queen.
Spain's King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar led mourners at the service outside Madrid, which was broadcast live on state television.
Hundreds of people and high-ranking officials joined the victims' families at the funerals, as prayers were said over the seven coffins draped in the Spanish national flag.
The men were killed in a roadside ambush Saturday south of Baghdad.
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