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Suicide car-bomber kills two soldiers

Oct-13-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

Matthew Cox reports from Mosul on today's convoy attack.

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By Matthew Cox, Times staff writer

MOSUL, Iraq — Insurgents here drove a car bomb into an Army convoy of up-armored Humvees today and detonated it. The blast killed two soldiers and injured five others. The names and units of the dead and five wounded, who were attached to Task Force Olympia, will not be released until the family members have been notified, said spokesman Lt. Col. Paul Hastings.

This is the second car bomb attack here in two days. On Monday, ;a suicide bomber detonated a pickup truck full of explosives next to a Stryker column, killing one soldier and wounding nine.

Today’s blast occurred at 2:20 p.m. in the northeastern section of the city as three up-armored Humvees drove along a main road. The insurgent waited in an alley for the first Humvee to pass, then sped toward the convoy, striking the side of the second Humvee.

“That’s a tactic that has been used down south, but we have not seen it here until now,” said Col. Tom Knight, deputy commander of Task Force Olympia.


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