Two bloody days for US in Iraq
Fourteen US soldiers killed in last two days
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Thursday, 21, Jun 2007 06:56
Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in the last two days in clashes with militants around Iraq, the Pentagon has revealed.
The deaths mean that almost 60 American troops have died in June so far.
Today's announcement from the US military comes as a suicide truck bomb in northern Iraq left 15 civilians and police officers dead, as well as wounding more than 40 others.
The attack in Suleiman Beg, 90km south of Kirkuk, flattened a council office and the surrounding homes.
According to the US, the 14 soldiers died in five separate incidents around the war-torn Middle Eastern country.
Yesterday two task force soldiers were killed and four wounded when their vehicle was hit by two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) south-west of Baghdad.
On the same day two other marines died in al-Anbar province in an insurgent attack, while four troops were killed when their convoy in central Baghdad was struck by a roadside bomb.
Military losses continued today, with one soldier dying after militants targeted a vehicle with a rocket-propelled grenade in northern Baghdad.
And then in the north-eastern section of the Iraqi capital a roadside bomb accounted for five troops, three Iraqi civilians and one interpreter.