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| July 3, 2003 Release Number: 03-07-11 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SOLDIER, IRAQI BOY WOUNDED IN PATROL ATTACK BAGHDAD, Iraq - A 1st Armored Division soldier and a 6-year-old boy were wounded during a firefight in the Kadhimyah neighborhood at about 2:30 a.m. July 3. Soldiers were conducting a routine nighttime patrol in a rural part of Baghdad when an Iraqi man attacked the patrol, shooting one of the soldiers. The soldiers returned fire in self defense, killing the gunman and wounding a boy who was with the gunman. The soldier and boy have been evacuated to the 28th Combat Support Hospital and are in stable condition. -30- |
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