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PAP news agency, Warsaw,
11 Nov 2006
Pole and Slovak killed in Iraq explosion
Warsaw, 11 November: Two soldiers, a Pole and a Slovak, have been
killed in the explosion of a mine booby-trap in Iraq. A Pole and an
Armenian were wounded. As PAP has discovered, it was a sergeant from
the 16th Mechanized Division from Elblag [northern Poland] who was
killed.
The lives of those wounded are not in danger and they have been taken
by helicopter to hospital in Baghdad. The Pole, who is wounded in the
leg, is a junior warrant officer from the airbase in Malbork
[northern Poland].
The accident took place on the road between Al-Kut and a location
where a company of Slovak sappers was clearing mines from an old
ammunition dump.
Up until today, 21 Poles had been killed in Iraq, 17 of them
soldiers.
11 Nov 2006
Pole and Slovak killed in Iraq explosion
Warsaw, 11 November: Two soldiers, a Pole and a Slovak, have been
killed in the explosion of a mine booby-trap in Iraq. A Pole and an
Armenian were wounded. As PAP has discovered, it was a sergeant from
the 16th Mechanized Division from Elblag [northern Poland] who was
killed.
The lives of those wounded are not in danger and they have been taken
by helicopter to hospital in Baghdad. The Pole, who is wounded in the
leg, is a junior warrant officer from the airbase in Malbork
[northern Poland].
The accident took place on the road between Al-Kut and a location
where a company of Slovak sappers was clearing mines from an old
ammunition dump.
Up until today, 21 Poles had been killed in Iraq, 17 of them
soldiers.