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Three US soldiers, 8 Iraqi troops killed in attacks
 BAGHDAD - Three US soldiers were killed when a bomb struck their vehicle in north-west Baghdad while elsewhere eight Iraqi soldiers were killed while trying to detonate rockets, the US and Iraqi military said Wednesday.Elsewhere eight Iraqi soldiers and police were killed and 42 people injured in Ubaydi, east of Baghdad, Tuesday evening when a lorry-load of rockets exploded while they were trying to detonate them, the Voices of Iraq VOI news agency. The anti-explosive experts had already dismantled three rockets before the rest exploded, Iraqi security officials told VOI. The wounded were taken to hospitals in the Shiite-dominated Sadr City nearby. Posted by: Steve White 2008-02-21 |
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