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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.
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