BAGHDAD, Iraq – Three suicide bombers in a furniture truck blew themselves up at the gates of a U.S. Army base Thursday, killing one soldier and wounding 14. It was the third suicide attack on American troops in Iraq this week.
Three wounded soldiers were evacuated from the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division west of Baghdad to a combat hospital and the other 11 wounded were treated and returned to duty, the U.S. military reported.
There were no U.S. fatalities in the previous two suicide attacks this week, indicating defenses erected at American facilities were paying off.
Early today, three loud explosions boomed in the “Green Zone,” the compound housing the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition, in central Baghdad.
A coalition spokesman said two projectiles hit “in the vicinity of the Green Zone,” causing minor damage to one building but no casualties.
Also Thursday, the military reported one U.S. soldier drowned and another was missing after a patrol boat accident on the Tigris River in Baghdad.
“The soldiers were conducting routine patrols on the Tigris River when one of the soldiers fell overboard, and the other soldier jumped in to save him,” the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
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