Bomb Kills 1 GI, Injures Another
A roadside bomb killed one American soldier and wounded another as they were escorting a fuel convoy in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said today.
Army spokesman Master Sgt. Robert Powell said the bomb exploded around 4 p.m. Saturday near the city of Baiji, about 90 miles south of the northern city of Mosul.
The soldier who was killed was with the 1st Infantry Division. His identity was not immediately released.
The other soldier was hospitalized in stable condition.
The death raises the toll of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq to 904 since the war began last year, according to Associated Press.
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