- BAGHDAD (AP) -- U.S. forces
aided by Iraqis searched the muddy waters of the Tigris river yesterday
in northern Iraq for a soldier and two pilots missing since their helicopter
crashed while searching for a river-patrol boat that had capsized.
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- Separately, a man was killed yesterday when he stepped
on a roadside bomb as he exited a bus in a Baghdad suburb, an Iraqi Civil
Defense Corps spokesman said. Three other passengers were wounded, one
critically, he said.
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- Two Iraqi policemen and an Iraqi translator accompanying
American soldiers in the patrol boat were killed in the incident, said
a military spokeswoman. One soldier was still missing while three others
survived, she said.
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- The OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter, attached to the
101st Airborne Division, crashed Sunday in the Tigris in the town of Mosul
while trying to help with the boat rescue.
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- In other violence, four Iraqi policemen manning a checkpoint
outside Ramadi west of Baghdad were killed Sunday in a drive-by shooting,
police Lt. Col. Saad Someir said. He said gunmen also had killed three
policemen at another checkpoint in Ramadi on Sunday.
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- The News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma, Wash., which has
a reporter embedded with the 101st Airborne, said the helicopter had gone
down on the east bank of the Tigris across from the populous old part of
Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. When rescuers reached the helicopter,
they found no one aboard, the newspaper reported, quoting unidentified
officials.
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