4 US troops, 18 others killed in Iraq

Published September 20, 2006

BAGHDAD, Sept 19: Another four US soldiers have died in a series of incidents across Iraq, the US military reported on Tuesday. A soldier with the Military Police brigade was killed and two others wounded when their vehicle was struck on Tuesday by a suicide car bomb in the northern city of Mosul.

In Baghdad, a soldier died when his vehicle struck a roadside bomb while shortly afterwards another was killed by small arms in north-central Baghdad, both on Sunday.

US troops are in the midst of conducting operations to confiscate weapons and restore security to this area of Baghdad under the three-month-old Operation Together Forward.

On Monday, a soldier in the medical task force which provides health care in Iraq died of ‘non-battle related injuries’, the statement from the US military said without elaborating.

BLAST KILLS 18: A car bomb followed by a suicide blast killed 18 people and wounded 11 in Sderat, a small town near Mosul, on Tuesday.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest shortly after a crowd had gathered around the remains of a car bomb that went off near a passing Iraqi army and police patrol.—AFP/Reuters

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