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HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
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November 5, 2004
Release Number: 04-11-04C


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ONE SOLDIER KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED BY INDERECT FIRE NEAR FALLUJAH

LSA ANACONDA, BALAD, Iraq -- A 13th Corps Support Command Soldier is dead and five are injured as the result of an indirect fire attack on a Multi-National Force military base near Fallujah at about 1:45 p.m. on Nov. 5.

The injured Soldiers were evacuated to a military medical facility on Camp Fallujah, one was returned to duty after treatment.

The name of the dead soldier is being withheld pending next of kin notification. The attack is under investigation.

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