US soldier dies in bomb blast

Published July 22, 2003

BAGHDAD, July 21: A US soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in an attack in Baghdad on Monday.

A US military spokesman said the soldier, from the 1st Armoured Division, and the interpreter were killed when an improvised bomb went off and they were shot at on a highway.

A local journalist watched as a US military vehicle blew up in broad daylight in the capital. A Reuters photographer later saw two burnt out Humvee vehicles there, 100 metres apart, apparently the aftermath of the fatal incident.—Reuter

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