Dutch soldier killed in Iraq, five badly wounded

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Dutch soldier killed in Iraq, five badly wounded

http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?sid=6668

AMSTERDAM (Reuters/BGNES) - A Dutch soldier was killed and five seriously wounded in a shooting incident on Saturday evening in Iraq, the Dutch defence ministry said.

The ministry said in a statement early on Sunday the shooting probably began with an attack on a military vehicle in the neighbourhood of Ar Rumaythah, where some of the some 1,200 Dutch troops stationed in Iraq are based.

A ministry spokesman said this was the second death of a Dutch soldier in Iraq after another was killed in May. The dead man was a 29-year-old member of the military police.
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