5 US Occupation Soldiers Killed in Iraq

Local Editor

Five US occupation soldiers were killed in central Iraq on Monday, taking the death toll of soldiers killed in the war-torn country since the 2003 US-led invasion to 4,459. "Five US service members were killed Monday in central Iraq," a US army statement said, without giving further details. An Iraqi interior ministry official and an Iraqi police officer said five rockets struck the sprawling Camp Victory base which surrounds Baghdad's international airport in the outskirts of the city, but more information was not immediately available. Both Iraqi officials said that the bodies of two apparent attackers were found outside the US base, badly burned from two rockets which exploded inside their vehicle. Monday's deaths bring the total number of US occupation soldiers killed in Iraq to 4,459, according to a tally based on independent website Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. Monday's attack killed the highest number of US service personnel in a single day since May 11, 2009, when a US soldier opened fire on five of his colleagues on a base just outside Baghdad. That solider was later arrested and charged with the killings.

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