Iraq police stand near the remains of a wrecked vehicle following a car bomb in the northern Sunni Moslem city of Mosul. Two US military personnel were killed when their base in Mosul came under mortar fire, the US military said.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Mortar Attack on Mosul, Iraq, Base
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on a military base in Mosul, a city in northern Iraq, the U.S.-led coalition press office said in an e-mailed statement from Baghdad.
One soldier was killed at the time of the attack and the other died of wounds sustained in the assault, which came at about 10 a.m. local time, the military said.
A civilian contractor was wounded in the attack and evacuated to a military hospital in Baghdad, the statement said. None of the victims was identified.
The deaths came as U.S. and Iraqi troops in west-central Iraq battled for control of Fallujah, a city held by insurgents and one the U.S. and interim Iraqi governments say must be pacified for national elections to take place in January.
