4 US, British soldiers killed in Iraq attacks
14 'terrorists slain, 33 mutilated bodies recovered
Afp, Baghdad/ London
Iraqi forces killed 14 "terrorists" and captured almost 200 suspects yesterday in a major operation to clear the outskirts of Baghdad of insurgent fighters while two US and two British soldiers were killed in separate attacks. Two US marines were killed by "enemy action" in Iraq's western province of Al-Anbar, a bastion of the Sunni insurgency, the military said Monday. The marines died Sunday. Two British soldiers were killed and two others injured in an attack on a military convoy near Basra in southern Iraq on Monday, the Ministry of Defence in London said. "It is with great regret that we can confirm that two British soldiers have died as a result of an attack on a British patrol near the town of Ad Dayr, north of Basrah City earlier today," said an MoD statement. "The units in charge of the southern and middle Euphrates district, the 8th and 10th army divisions, killed 14 terrorists and arrested 98 of them along with 95 more suspects," the statement said. Meanwhile, at least 33 bullet-riddled bodies of Iraqi men murdered in apparent sectarian killings were recovered by Iraqi forces across Baghdad on Monday, a security official told AFP. "Iraqi security forces found 33 unidentified bodies on Monday from various parts of Baghdad," the official said on condition of anonymity.
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