US soldier killed in Iraq bomb attack

A suicide car bomb attack at a US military base in Iraq has killed one US soldier and wounded 14.

A suicide car bomb attack at a US military base in Iraq has killed one US soldier and wounded 14.

The main US headquarters in central Baghdad also come under attack with several blasts rocking the compound around midnight on Thursday. A US military spokesman said there were no casualties and only minor damage.

The bomb was concealed in a furniture truck and detonated outside a base of the US 82nd Airborne Division near the flashpoint town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. US officials said the vehicle was driven by a suicide bomber and that there were believed to have been two other Iraqis in the truck who also died in the explosion.

A suicide car bomb attack on a military base in Iraq's north on Tuesday wounded nearly 60 US soldiers. A suicide bomber also blew himself up near a separate base on Tuesday.

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