- MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) -- The
bodies of three US soldiers who went missing last month were found in the
Tigris river by Iraqi police, a US military spokesman said today.
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- Two went missing when their helicopter splashed down
in the Tigris near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on January 25.
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- They were on a mission to find another US soldier lost
in the waters when a patrol boat capsized.
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- Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Piek, a spokesman for the 3rd
Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, said the remains of the two pilots were
found on Wednesday while those of the soldier whose boat capsized were
found today.
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- He said the army gave two modern boats and diving equipment
to members of the Iraqi river police who found the bodies.
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