Patrol struck by IED south of Baghdad

Multi-National Force-Iraq

Tuesday, 19 June 2007
Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20070619-19
June 19, 2007

Patrol struck by IED south of Baghdad
Multi-National Division – Center PAO

BAGHDAD — A Task Force Marne Soldier was killed and three were wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad Monday.

The Soldiers were responding to another improvised explosive device attack that wounded one Soldier.

The name of the Soldier killed is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.

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