ComradeRobertRiley
1st November 2003, 10:59
Two American soldiers have been killed and two others wounded in an explosion in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
A crude bomb or landmine exploded by the side of a road as a US military convoy was passing.
The BBC's Jill McGivering, in the capital Baghdad, says attacks on American forces occupying Iraq are now averaging about 25 a day.
Saturday morning's attack comes exactly six months after US President George W Bush declared major hostilities over.
The soldiers who were killed and injured were from the 101st Airborne Division.
"There was a huge blast. The two drivers of the vehicles were definitely killed," policeman Abdul-Rahman Fawaz, who witnessed the explosion, told Reuters news agency.
BBC News - Iraq (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3232613.stm)
A crude bomb or landmine exploded by the side of a road as a US military convoy was passing.
The BBC's Jill McGivering, in the capital Baghdad, says attacks on American forces occupying Iraq are now averaging about 25 a day.
Saturday morning's attack comes exactly six months after US President George W Bush declared major hostilities over.
The soldiers who were killed and injured were from the 101st Airborne Division.
"There was a huge blast. The two drivers of the vehicles were definitely killed," policeman Abdul-Rahman Fawaz, who witnessed the explosion, told Reuters news agency.
BBC News - Iraq (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3232613.stm)