Soldier killed in Iraq, two wounded
A US soldier belonging Task Force Olympia was killed and two were wounded after their patrol was attacked with small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire in Tal Afar in northern Iraq, the US military said today.
The attack occurred at approximately 2pm yesterday, the military said. The wounded soldiers were transported to a military hospital in Mosul, 225 miles north-west of Baghdad.
Five other US servicemen died in three separate attacks yesterday, making it the deadliest day for the US military in Iraq since the suicide bombing at a mess tent in Mosul on December 21, which killed 22 people including 14 US soldiers and three American contractors.
The identities of all the dead were being withheld until their families can be notified.
As of yesterday, at least 1,337 members of the US military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an unofficial count.
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