Death Toll 07/27 - 07/28/03

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Iraq attacks kill five US troops

Sunday, 27 July, 2003

Another US soldier has been killed by hostile fire in Iraq - the fifth in the past 24 hours.

Washington had hoped that after the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay on Tuesday attacks on US forces would diminish.

But five Americans have been killed and seven wounded since early Saturday.

The latest incident involved a grenade attack on soldiers from the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force south of Baghdad, in which one man died. .



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Liberia rebels spurn ceasefire call


Sunday, 27 July, 2003

Troops defending the Liberian capital beat off an attack on a key bridge after the main rebel group rejected a US call to pull back.

The BBC's correspondent in Monrovia says the clash with the Lurd rebels marked some of the heaviest fighting of the nine-day-old battle for the city.

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The fighting claimed at least 14 more civilian lives on Sunday in a city where up to 200,000 people are living without shelter and with little food or clean water.

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The bridge was carpeted with spent rounds afterwards in a battle which left at least three civilians killed and many wounded.


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Six Killed in Pakistan, India Mortar Fire

July 27, 2003, 4:33 PM EDT

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- Troops from India and Pakistan traded artillery and mortar fire along the Kashmir border Sunday, killing six Pakistani civilians.

The dead from the skirmish, which is not uncommon in the disputed border region, included two brothers, ages 8 and 10. Another 15 people were wounded on Pakistan's side, said police Superintendent Raja Abdul Razzaq.

There were no immediate reports of casualties on the Indian side.

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A 65-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man died elsewhere in Pakistani Kashmir, police said.


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Missing Israeli soldier found dead


Monday, 28 July, 2003

The body of an Israeli soldier who went missing a week ago has been discovered in northern Israel.

Police suspect the soldier had been kidnapped.

The body of Oleg Shaichat, 20, who disappeared on 21 July, was found buried, Israeli Army Radio reported.

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Israel's Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz declined to speculate about the circumstances surrounding the death.



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Fresh attack on US forces in Baghdad


Monday, 28 July, 2003

Two US soldiers are believed to have been killed in a fresh attack on American troops in Iraq.

Reuters news agency said its journalists had seen two soldiers lying motionless after a grenade was apparently dropped on their Humvee vehicle as it passed under a bridge in central Baghdad.

The attack follows a raid in the capital by elite US troops searching for former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, which is reported to have left up to five Iraqi civilians dead on Sunday.

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Eyewitnesses said one of the soldiers was slumped in the rear seat of the vehicle, the other was lying on the road. They said neither was receiving medical aid and they appeared to be dead.

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Six Muslim Militants Killed in Saudi Firefight


Mon July 28, 2003 12:02 PM ET

RIYADH (Reuters) - Six Muslim militants and two policemen were killed Monday in the latest Saudi security sweep, which Riyadh says shows it is serious about waging war on terror.

It was the biggest militant death toll in a series of shoot-outs since suicide bombs in Riyadh killed 35 people on May 12, including nine Americans. Saudi Arabia and the United States blamed the attacks on Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group.

Monday's casualties came in a firefight at a farm in Qassim province, an Islamist heartland in the northeast, during a crackdown on wanted Islamists, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Eight policemen were wounded in the clash.

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"The operation led to the killing of six suspects and the wounding of one of them. Two security men were martyred and eight others were slightly wounded," it said, adding four people who gave the suspects refuge were arrested.


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U.S. Soldier Killed, Three Hurt in Baghdad Attack


Mon July 28, 2003 04:19 PM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier was killed in a bomb attack in broad daylight in Baghdad on Monday, bringing to 50 the number of U.S. troops to die from hostile fire since Washington declared major combat over on May 1.

The U.S. military said three other troops were wounded when an "improvised explosive device" was dropped from a bridge onto a U.S. convoy in the capital's Rashid district, the latest in an increasingly bold and deadly guerrilla campaign.

Fueling a cycle of fear and resentment between American occupiers and ordinary Iraqis, people in Baghdad accused jumpy U.S. troops of killing five passers-by on Sunday in what looked like a botched raid in the hunt for Saddam Hussein.

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In Mansur, a smart district in western Baghdad, troops from the Task Force 20 special unit hunting Saddam and his inner circle raided a house on Sunday evening. But they came away empty-handed, leaving the shattered wrecks of cars that were shot up apparently in error -- and seething neighbors.

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Soldiers told Reuters five men died, one of them a teenager.


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Two Dead, 31 Hurt as Bomb Explodes in Bombay Bus


Mon July 28, 2003 03:26 PM ET

BOMBAY (Reuters) -A bomb exploded on a bus in Bombay late on Monday, killing two people and wounding 31, government officials said.

"This blast has definitely been caused by a terrorist group but we still do not know which group is involved," Kripashankar Singh, junior home minister of the Maharashtra state, where Bombay is located, told Reuters.

"It was quite a powerful bomb, which was placed under the seat in the rear of the bus," he said.

Police said they had stepped up security in the state after the explosion.



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Iraq: One ICRC staff member killed and one wounded

22-07-2003

Geneva (ICRC) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is deeply shocked and dismayed by the death of one of its staff members, Nadisha Yasassri Ranmuthu, an IT technician from Sri Lanka, on 22 July near Hilla, south of Baghdad. Mazen Hamed Rashid, an Iraqi ICRC driver, was wounded in the same tragic incident.

Mr Ranmuthu and Mr Rashid were travelling on the main road leading north from Hilla to Baghdad at around 11 a.m. (local time) when they were shot at. Mr Ranmuthu was killed on the spot. Mr Rashid was taken to the surgical hospital in Hilla, where he is being treated. At this stage, the ICRC does not know who is responsible for the attack. The Iraqi police and the coalition forces have been informed.

The vehicle in which the two men were travelling was clearly marked with highly visible red cross emblems.

The ICRC and its staff are deeply distressed by the death of Mr Ranmuthu and extend their heartfelt sympathy to his family and friends.

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A U.S. soldier tends to a comrade as they drive to a military hospital following a grenade attack in Baghdad July 28, 2003. A soldier was killed in the daylight attack on Monday, bringing to 50 the number of U.S. troops to die from hostile fire since Washington declared major combat over on May 1. The U.S. military said three other troops were wounded when an 'improvised explosive device' was dropped from a bridge onto a U.S. convoy in the capital's Rashid district, the latest in an increasingly bold and deadly guerrilla campaign. Photo by Stefano Rellandini/Reuters





The father (L) of Haider Al-Shihlawi, an Iraqi boy, killed in the morning during a demonstration, cries next to the coffin of his son inside the mosque in the town of Kerbala, some 90 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad July 27, 2003. U.S. troops fired in the air in an effort to disperse the stone-throwing crowd that was angered by the death of a local man a day earlier during what they said was an incident with troops near the city's Imam Hussein shrine. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber






Faheema Jassim Khalaf, 15, lies on her sleeping mat with a blanket covering her injured legs, July 18, 2003, in Bayji, 250 kms (156 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. In the space of a few seconds, Faheema lost her mother and two sisters, along with her right leg below the knee and the use of her other one, in a May 30 attack by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi)

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