5 US Soldiers, 2 Iraqi Police Killed in Bombing
By VOA News
10 April 2009
A suicide bomber set off a truck full of explosives outside a police station in northern Iraq, killing five U.S. soldiers and two Iraqi policeman.
The U.S. military said Friday's blast in Mosul is the largest single loss of American life in Iraq in more than a year.
U.S. officials said the target was the Iraqi national police base, not the U.S. patrol that happened to be on the same street when the attack occurred.
Officials added that two people suspected of involvement in the bombing in Mosul have been detained.
Violence remains common in Mosul, as extremists exploit divisions between the city's Arabs, Kurds and other ethnic and religious groups.
U.S. forces are set to withdraw from Iraqi cities by the end of June.
Other parts of Iraq have experienced a sharp reduction in violence in the past year, but a series of bombings in Baghdad in recent days has claimed dozens of lives.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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