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Suicide bombing kills four Iraqi soldiers
Sep 9, 2007, 10:23 GMT
Baghdad - At least four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 injured Sunday in a suicide bombing outside a military checkpoint in the town of Balad, an Iraqi military official said.
Deputy governor of Balad Amir Abdel Hadi told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa a suicide bomber driving a large truck blew himslef up outside a checkpoint on a bridge linking Baghdad to Balad, 70 kilometres north of the capital.
Emergency teams and US forces were searching for more people under the rubble, Abdel-Hadi said.
Human remains and mutilated bodies were found, the official said adding that the number of soldiers who were at the checkpoint at the time of the blast was not known.
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