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| Thirteen Iraqis killed in Saturday violence |
| 2005-04-23 |
| BAGHDAD - Eight Iraqi soldiers were killed on Saturday when their convoy struck an improvised explosive device in Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said. Other soldiers open fire after the incident, killing a civilian who drove by the scene. The police said 20 soldiers were also wounded in the blast. In a separate attack in Yusifiya, 40 kilometres south of Baghdad, another two soldiers were killed and three injured when their convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device. Further to the south, a car bomb explosion near a Shiite Mosque in Abu Al-Khasib of Basra on Saturday killed two people and injured number of others, eyewitnesses said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |