- An Iraqi garbage collector was killed and 14 US soldiers
and a civilian were wounded today in a mortar attack on a residential neighbourhood
in central Baghdad, the US military said.
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- "One civilian was killed and one civilian was injured
and 14 multinational force soldiers were wounded in a mortar attack on
a residential building in central Baghdad at around 6:45am (1145 AEST),"
a spokesman said.
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- South of Baghdad, Dr Kassem el-Abadi, 40, deputy director
of Mahmudiyah hospital, was shot dead late yesterday by unknown assailants
in a car as he left work for home, the health ministry said.
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- The dead garbage collector was covered with a light green
cloth in the courtyard of a housing complex next to the Iranian embassy,
as US soldiers and Iraqi police arrived on the scene, an AFP correspondent
said.
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- "It was a mortar attack in which a garbage cleaner
was killed and another man wounded," a policeman said.
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- The man was killed in the Karkh district on the west
bank of the Tigris River, not far from the fortified Green Zone housing
the interim Iraqi government and the US embassy that has been the target
of repeated insurgent attacks.
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- US helicopters hovered over the area shortly after the
attack, in which two or three explosions of mortar rounds were heard.
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- Another military spokesman confirmed the 14 wounded soldiers
were American.
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- Agence France-Presse
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