US death toll nears 3,500 in Iraq
Ap, Baghdad
Iraq's seemingly inexhaustible corps of terror bombers struck across the country again yesterday, from a restaurant in Baghdad's teeming Sadr City, to a police station levelled by a blast near the Syrian border. At least 15 people were reported killed. The new blows against Iraqi government authority came as US military casualties rose toward a four-year death toll of 3,500, with 22 dead reported for the first six days of June, almost double that of June 2006. The US military reported four US soldiers were killed in separate incidents Tuesday and Wednesday roadside bombings in eastern Baghdad and near Beiji, north of the capital, and an explosion and enemy gunfire in Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.That lifted the US death toll in four years of war to 3,498. And it raised the average rate of US troops deaths to about four per day in June, compared with two a day in June 2006.
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