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Article: Three Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk's bomb attack
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Three Iraqi soldiers killed in Kirkuk's bomb attack
BAGHDAD, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and
a fourth was injured when a roadside bomb hit their patrol near
Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Friday, a local police source
said.
The incident occurred in the morning when the bomb struck the
soldiers' patrol in the al-Rashad area, some 30 km southwest of the
oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the source told Xinhua on condition of
anonymity.
One of the patrol's vehicles was completely destroyed by the
blast, the source said, adding Iraqi security forces immediately
sealed off the area to secure the scene and began to evacuate the
casualties.
Kirkuk was the scene of the killing ...
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