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Posted on 04/11/2003 6:17:07 AM PDT by kattracks
US says five servicemen hurt in Iraq suicide attack
AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, April 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday that five servicemen were wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad on Thursday eveningbut nobody was killed.
"A vehicle approached a checkpoint and detonated and we had some Marines who were injured by that, four Marines and one medical corpsman as well,"Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a news briefing at U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar.
Brooks said the explosion occurred in the vicinity of Saddam City, a sprawling slum inhabited mainly by Shi'ite Muslims in northeastern Baghdad.
After the attack on Thursday evening, Marine officer Matt Baker had told Reuters he believed there were "some dead" in the blast.
U.S. forces manning checkpoints across Iraq are on edge following a series of such suicide attacks that have killed or wounded Marines or soldiers examining vehicles.
U.S. Marines said they killed two children at a checkpoint in the southern city of Nassiriya earlier on Friday when the driver of the vehicle in which the youngsters were travelling ignored warnings to stop, sparking fears of a suicide attack.
Nine other people in the vehicle were wounded, they said.
04/11/03 08:47 ET
When our troops go from dead to alive, I welcome another correction. Thank you, Lord.
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