Polish soldier killed in Iraq, 4 wounded

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Source: AP

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish soldier was killed and four others were wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Defense Ministry said Saturday.

The soldier, 25-year-old Tomasz Jura, was killed in the central city of Diwaniyah when the convoy hit an improvised explosive device Friday night, the ministry said in a statement.

Four others suffered minor injuries, and their lives were not in danger.

Warsaw contributed ground troops to the U.S.-led war in Iraq in 2003 and has since led an international force south of Baghdad that now includes 900 Poles. Jura was the 20th Polish soldier killed in Iraq.

On Friday, U.S. helicopters pounded an area near a Shiite mosque with heavy machine-gun fire, killing two militants just ahead of the start of weekly prayer services and outraging preachers loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.



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