- A bomb has killed two US soldiers and wounded a third
on a road 70 kilometres (45 miles) west of Baghdad.
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- The combat soldiers' vehicle, which was serving as an
escort in a convoy, struck a homemade bomb in Habaniya, US Central Command
reports.
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- The deaths bring to 267 the number of US troops reported
by the Pentagon as killed in action in Iraq since the end of major combat
on 1 May.
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- Habaniya is close to the flashpoint towns of Ramadi and
Falluja.
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- Earlier, the US-led coalition reported that two Iraqi
women employed at a coalition laundry in the southern city of Basra had
been killed by gunmen who raked their taxi with bullets.
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- Also on Wednesday evening, a US soldier was mortally
wounded in a roadside bomb attack near the central town of Baquba.
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3503938.stm
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