[Shadow_Group] US Copter Downed By Surface-To-Air Missile - Witnesses 31 killed

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US Copter Downed By Surface-To-Air Missile - Witnesses 31 killed
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US Copter Downed By 
Surface-To-Air 
Missile - Witnesses 
Daily Dispatch - South Africa
1-27-5

  BAGHDAD (Sapa-AFP) -- At least 31 US Marines were killed in a US
transport helicopter crash near the western Iraqi city of Rutbah,
according to military and media reports yesterday. 
  
It is the highest number of US fatalities to result from a single
incident since the US first occupied Iraq almost two years ago. 
  
Earlier yesterday the US military in Baghdad confirmed the crash saying
it happened overnight as the helicopter was transporting soldiers from
the 1st Marine Division, headquartered in Fallujah. 
  
Witnesses said the helicopter appeared to have been hit by a
surface-to-air missile and exploded on hitting the ground. 
  
A second helicopter also came under fire but was able to reach safety,
the witnesses said. 
  
A further five US soldiers were killed in two other incidents yesterday,
bringing the day's death toll to 36, the highest since March 23, 2003,
when 31 soldiers died. 
  
Four US soldiers were killed yesterday during clashes with insurgents in
the western province of Anbar, while a fifth soldier died in an attack
on a military patrol north of Baghdad. 
  
Meanwhile seven people died when a car bomb exploded at a police station
in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk yesterday, a police spokesman said. 
  
Three policemen, two Iraqi soldiers and two civilians died and three
policemen were injured, police said. 
  
Witnesses spoke of two more car blasts, one near a city marketplace and
another outside the town near a US patrol, but there were no immediate
reports of casualties. 
  
Seven soldiers were injured in two separate car bombs targeting US
convoys on the main road leading to Baghdad International Airport
yesterday morning, the US military said. The bombs exploded within four
hours of each other along a route that has frequently been targeted by
insurgents. 
  
One Iraqi was killed and two were wounded in a firefight between US
troops and insurgents in the centre of the city of Ramadi, hospital
sources said. 
  
In the village of Bu Nimr, 20 kilometres from Ramadi, US troops rounded
up 40 Iraqis on suspicion of helping insurgents carry out attacks
against US convoys. 
  
Saboteurs blew up a school designated as a polling station for Sunday's
elections, witnesses said. No one was injured in yesterday's blast at a
girls' school north of Baghdad. A number of would-be polling centres
have come under attack by insurgents seeking to derail Sunday's vote for
a new National Assembly. 
  
http://www.dispatch.co.za/ 
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