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Missing soldier's body recovered from Tigris

Feb-11-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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MICHAEL GILBERT; The News Tribune

MOSUL, Iraq - Divers recovered the body of a missing Stryker brigade soldier Tuesday, 17 days after he was lost in one of two accidents on the Tigris River.

Helicopter pilots spotted the body of Staff Sgt. Christopher Bunda, 29, on the surface just after 2 p.m. The body of the Bremerton man was found north of the third of five bridges that span the Tigris in Mosul, the brigade reported.

Also Tuesday, military officials released the names of two soldiers killed Monday in a accidental explosion near Sinjar. Killed were Sgt. Thomas D. Robbins, 27, of Schenectady, N.Y., and Sgt. Elijah Tai Wah Wong, 42, or Mesa, Ariz. Robbins was assigned to the Fort Lewis-based Stryker Brigade. Wong was a member of an Arizona National Guard unit.

Gilbert covers numerous other developments in this article as well.


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