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Murdered US Soldiers Beaten with Concrete Blocks
By AP Reporter
Gunmen killed two American soldiers today while they were driving through the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and a crowd swarmed over the scene, looting the vehicle and pummelling the bodies, witnesses said.
Elsewhere, another US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad, and three American civilian contractors were injured in an explosion in the northern oil centre Kirkuk. Initial reports said the blast was due to a mortar, but Lt. Col. Matt Croke said officials later concluded it was a bomb.
First reports quoted witnesses as saying the assailants slit the soldiers? throats during the attack in Mosul?s Ras al-Jadda district. The 101st Airborne Division, however, said the soldiers were shot as they were driving between US garrisons.
Several other witnesses also said the soldiers were shot.
Bahaa Jassim, a teenager who saw the attack, said the vehicle crashed into a wall after the shooting. Several dozen passers-by descended on the vehicle, opening the door. After the bodies fell into the street, the crowd pummelled the bodies with concrete blocks and looted the car, stealing the weapons and backpacks, Jassim said.
He said a US patrol arrived and cordoned off the area.
A 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed today and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in Baqouba, 35 miles north-east of Baghdad, the military said. US officials also said the chief of police in Latifiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, was killed today along with several of his officers. They gave no further details.