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13-10-2003, 15:10
Soldier killed in Iraq mine blast
US troops have been conducting raids in northern Iraq
A US soldier has been killed and another wounded in a landmine blast in northern Iraq.
The soldiers' Bradley fighting vehicle hit the mine near Bayji on Sunday night, a spokesman said.
The landmine "could have been put there minutes before or hours before", Major Gordon Tate told the Reuters news agency in Tikrit.
Earlier on Sunday, six Iraqis were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad.
That attack was aimed at a hotel used by Americans and other foreigners as well as by the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.
US troops have been conducting raids in northern Iraq
A US soldier has been killed and another wounded in a landmine blast in northern Iraq.
The soldiers' Bradley fighting vehicle hit the mine near Bayji on Sunday night, a spokesman said.
The landmine "could have been put there minutes before or hours before", Major Gordon Tate told the Reuters news agency in Tikrit.
Earlier on Sunday, six Iraqis were killed in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad.
That attack was aimed at a hotel used by Americans and other foreigners as well as by the US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council.