Explosion kills two US troops

Описание: (1 Nov 2003)

1. US military trucks full of soldiers going passed armoured vehicles at road block
2. Two white 4x4 civilian vehicles in street with blast marks in sides
3. Closer shot of one vehicle with blast marks in side
4. American soldiers in street
5. Soldier with weapon
6. Soldiers inspecting vehicles in attack

STORYLINE:

A roadside bomb killed at least two US soldiers on Saturday in the northern Iraq city of Mosul.

The US military said two other soldiers were wounded in the roadside bombing, which Iraqi police initially reported as a land mine.

Iraqi police Lieutenant Walid Hashim said the men were inside two civilian cars when the blast occurred.

He rushed to the scene and saw that the drivers were dead while the two passengers were both badly injured.

The two deaths would bring to 122 the number of American soldiers killed by hostile fire since US president George W. Bush declared an end to hostile combat on May 1, when added to the total given by the Department of Defence on Friday.

A total of 114 US soldiers were killed between the start of the war March 20 and the end of April.

Attacks against coalition forces escalated this week.

U-S officials have blamed former Baath Party figures, foreign fighters and Islamic extremists for the upsurge.

An Islamic clergymen's association in Mosul issued a statement on Friday denouncing as sinful any Muslim's support for the Americans, saying it was a betrayal of religion.

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