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4 U.S. soldiers wounded in Kirkuk accident

July 27, 2009 - 01:47:01

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Four U.S. soldiers were wounded when their vehicle overturned north of Kirkuk city, an Iraqi police source said Monday.

“The four soldiers were inside the vehicle during the traffic accident,” Col. Othman Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The accident took place near Charman village, (25 km) north of Kirkuk,” he said.

The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Turkmen, Kurdish and Arab population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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