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28 September 2004
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Tuesday
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12 Shaban 1425
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Two US troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 27: A US soldier was killed in an attack near the town of Balad, north of Baghdad, on Monday while another died in a traffic accident in the same area, the US military said.
A statement explained that a US vehicle overturned trying to avoid a truck on the road and that one of the two soldiers wounded in the accident later died of his injuries.
The other soldier was killed when a patrol returning from the site of the crash was attacked by insurgents, the statement said. -AFP
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