Two US soldiers killed in ambush

Friday 10 October 2003 00:00 BST

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Two US soldiers were killed and four were wounded in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad scene of yesterday's fatal car-bombing at an Iraqi police station.

The troops from the 1st Armored Division were on a routine patrol when the ambush occurred about 8 pm Thursday, the military said. No further details were available.

On Thursday, a suicide car bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile into a police station in Sadr City, killing himself, nine others and wounding as many as 45. Sadr City is the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in the city.

The latest deaths bring to 94 the number of American soldiers killed by hostile fire in Iraq since President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat here on May 1.

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