- BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Four
U.S. soldiers and two members of the Iraqi security forces were killed
in separate insurgent attacks in Baghdad and near the southern city of
Amara, a senior military official said Sunday.
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- The deaths take to 545 the number of U.S. troops killed
since the U.S. invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. More U.S. soldiers
were killed during the month of April than during the three-week war that
ousted Saddam.
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- In the latest attacks, two U.S. soldiers and two members
of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps were killed early Sunday in northwest
Baghdad, the official said.
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- Two more U.S. troops were killed near Amara Saturday
when their convoy came under fire from small arms and a rocket-propelled
grenade.
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- Saturday, three British soldiers and an Iraqi policemen
were wounded in a rare clash between British forces and the Mehdi Army
of wanted Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Amara, 365 km (230 miles) south
of Baghdad following a swoop.
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- A British military spokesman said numerous individuals
had been arrested in a raid which netted "significant amounts of arms,
explosives and bomb-making equipment."
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- He said British forces sustained a number of casualties
in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a convoy in the town. A British
officer at the scene said three soldiers were wounded, one seriously.
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