Fifteen Iraqi police killed defusing rockets

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Fifteen Iraqi police killed defusing rockets
19 Feb 2008 20:56:50 GMT

(Updates death toll, adds details, U.S. soldiers wounded)

By Michael Holden

BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Iraqi officials said 15 policemen
were killed and more than 45 wounded in eastern Baghdad on
Tuesday as they tried to defuse rockets that had been prepared
for launch from the back of a truck.

The incident came after rockets were fired at nearby U.S. and Iraqi
army bases from the capital's Shi'ite Ubaidi district.

Police said they discovered a truck from which rockets had been
launched. As they tried to deal with them, it exploded.

"The bomb disposal unit were trying to defuse eight rockets in Ubaidi
but they lost control and they exploded," said Major-General Qassim
Moussawi, spokesman for Iraq's military in Baghdad.

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