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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Baghdad (ANTARA News) - Three US troops were killed and two wounded in a rocket attack on their base in southern Iraq on Wednesday, a US military spokesman told AFP.
"There was an indirect fire incident that killed three coalition force service members and wounded two," Lieutenant Michael Street told AFP.
An Iraqi civilian was wounded in the attack which according to another spokesman occurred early Wednesday on a military base in the city of Nasiriyah.
The US military usually uses the term "indirect fire" to indicate rocket attacks.
The latest deaths bring the military`s losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,987, according to an AFP tally based on independent website icasualties.org.
The US military has lost 11 personnel in the past three days.
On Monday, eight were killed in the deadliest day for the US military since August.
Five of them died in a suicide bombing in Baghdad as they were on foot patrol in the capital`s once upscale Mansur neighbourhood.
Three were killed along with their translator in a bomb blast in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
The last major attack against US troops was on January 9 when six US soldiers were killed when they entered a booby-trapped house in Diyala.
On August 22, 2007, 14 American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq after their Blackhawk came down during a pre-dawn flight. (*)
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