By Associated Press, 11/23/2003 05:47
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) Attackers slit the throats of two American soldiers who were waiting in traffic Sunday in this northern Iraqi city, witnesses said.
The U.S. command in Baghdad said it had no information on the incident.
However, the bodies of the two male soldiers could be seen lying in the street next to their vehicle in the city's Ras al-Jadda district with their throats cut.
23-11-2003, 11:49
The throats of two U.S. soldiers were slit by attackers while their vehicle was stopped in traffic on Sunday in central Mosul, according to witnesses.
A spokesman for the US 101st Airborne Division, based in Mosul, confirmed two soldiers had been killed there.
US soldiers surrounded the vehicle and interrogated Iraqis in the area, the witnesses added.
In the meantime, the US military said a US soldier was killed in a roadside bombing north of the capital. No further details were provided.
Meanwhile, American warplanes struck targets in central Iraq on Sunday, according to witnesses, and at least three people were injured when mortar shells hit an oil company compound in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials said.
Jets bombed areas around the city of Samara, located some 75 miles north of Baghdad, according to the witnesses. The US military, on its part, did not immediately confirm the strikes.
Elsewhere, in Kirkuk, the manager of the Iraqi Northern Oil Company said a club inside the company compound was struck overnight by mortar shells and that three foreigners were wounded. (Albawaba.com)
