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Six British soldiers are killed
http://www.sina.com.cn 2003/06/25 11:26  Shanghai Daily

  Six British soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded yesterday in two separate attacks in southern Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair's office said last night.

  Both incidents, one involving a British helicopter, occurred within a few kilometers of each other in Amarah, north of the city of Basra, Blair's office said.

  Last night Britain's Ministry of Defence was investigating whether or not the incidents were related and said it was unable meantime to give details of the first incident in which the soldiers were killed.

  In the second incident, troops from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment patrolling south of Amarah came under fire, taking a casualty. A helicopter dispatched with a reaction force to assist the ground forces then came under fire as it landed and seven people on board were wounded, three of them seriously.

  "It's normally very quiet down here," said British Army Lieutenant Colonel Ronnie McCourt in Basra. "We've been here nearly two months now and this is the first time people have been deliberately, consciously shooting at us."

  British soldiers are in control of Basra, Iraq's second largest city, where they have been able to patrol the city without helmets and flak jackets because of the relative quiet.

  These were the latest casualties in a 24-hour period that has seen some 25 attacks on the US-led forces occupying Iraq.

  Three Iraqis were shot and killed and one US soldier was wounded yesterday in a firefight at a military checkpoint in Ramadi, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, the US military said. Two Iraqis were wounded in the battle.

  Elsewhere, Iraqi insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at US troops in at least three towns in western Iraq. And in Baghdad, guerrillas fired a rocket-propelled grenade near the headquarters of the US administration. No injuries were reported in that attack.

  Officials at the Pentagon said anti-US forces in Iraq were ratcheting up their attacks, staging 25 of them in the past day alone.

  During the period, the US military said it had conducted 1,068 day patrols and 837 night patrols across Iraq in an effort to stem the violence.

  US officials said that Syrian border guards detained during a firefight last week during an operation to hunt down suspected members of Iraq's ousted regime were still in US custody.




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