WASHINGTON, April 5: The Pentagon said on Saturday that eight US soldiers ambushed last month with the recently rescued Private Jessica Lynch had been confirmed as killed in action.

The eight had been listed as “Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown” since their convoy was ambushed on March 23.

US forces also recovered a ninth body believed to be a US soldier but it had yet to be identified, Pentagon sources said. The bodies were discovered on April 2 at Nasiriyah hospital during Lynch’s rescue.

Iraqi forces ambushed the 507th Maintenance Company, operating in support of the advancing Third Infantry Division, after it took a wrong turn near Nasiriyah, southern Iraq.—AFP