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Search continues...along Tigris River

Jan-26-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Here's another report from Michael Gilbert in Mosul, who provides a detailed account of events leading up to and following the incident.

[Link to Full Article] (Updated since last night)

MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

MOSUL, Iraq - Three Stryker brigade soldiers and at least two Iraqi policemen remain unaccounted for Tuesday in Iraq after a tragic sequence of events Sunday along the Tigris River.

The search will continue today for a Stryker soldier lost when the Iraqi police boat he was aboard capsized, and for two pilots attached to the brigade whose helicopter crashed while they were looking for the missing soldier.

Two Iraqi policemen who were on the boat also are missing, and a third drowned. Later Sunday, a policeman was killed and another wounded most likely by Stryker troops who opened fire on their truck near the helicopter crash site, according to brigade reports Monday. The Stryker soldiers had been drawn into a shootout between the police truck and another vehicle at a traffic circle.

The incident reports describe a chaotic afternoon and evening along the river that runs through the center of this city of 1.8 million.


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