Iraq Attacks Push Death Toll To 49 Americans in April
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Attacks on American troops in Baghdad over the past two days killed five soldiers, the American military said yesterday, pushing the number of soldiers killed in Iraq in April to 49, the highest monthly toll since September.
Two of the soldiers were killed about 4:15 p.m. yesterday in southern Baghdad when their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb, the military said. A third soldier was killed about 1 a.m. by an explosive device while on foot patrol in northern Baghdad. The two other soldiers were killed Tuesday in separate attacks in the capital. One was shot, and another was killed when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle, the military said.
“We have said all along that this will be a tough fight,” an American spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Kevin Bergner, said at a news conference.
The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq had declined gradually after monthly death tolls exceeded 100 in April, May, and June. Sixty-five soldiers were killed in September.
