63 People Killed In Violence Across Iraq...

Associated Press VIJAY JOSHI August 1, 2006 at 02:59 PM
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A roadside bomb blew up a bus Tuesday, killing 24 people as violence across Iraq left 63 people dead. Among the dead was a British soldier killed in a mortar attack in the south, while the U.S. military announced that an American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb on Monday.

A provincial governor said that 45 people from his predominantly Shiite region had been kidnapped in a Sunni area of western Iraq while traveling by bus out of the country.

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