6 Americans killed in Iraq car bombing
At least three were women, worst single-day toll for servicewomen
U.S. troops check the site of a suspected roadside bomb in Baghdad on Friday.
NBC News and news services
Updated: 1:55 p.m. ET June 24, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber slammed into a 7-ton U.S. military vehicle in Fallujah, killing five Marines and a Navy sailor, Marine Corps sources told NBC News, adding that at least three of the dead were female Marines and that 13 others were wounded.

A review of casualty records indicates the attack is the single deadliest toll for female servicemembers in Iraq. Since the war started, 44 servicewomen have died in attacks or in accidents while in Iraq.

The vehicle, which had 19 people on board, was ferrying members of a U.S. military civil affairs team headed to perform checkpoint searches of female Iraqi civilians when it was attacked Thursday night, the sources said.

The official Marine Corps statement said at least two Marines were killed, and indicated that four more had died as well.

"Three Marines and a sailor believed to be in the vehicle are currently listed as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown pending a positive identification" of the bodies, the statement said.
Victims based at Camp LeJeuneThe team was assigned to the II Marine Expeditionary Force, which is based at Camp LeJeune, N.C.

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