Suicide blast kills 2 US marines
AFP, Baghdad
Two US marines were killed and six wounded in a suicide bomb attack yesterday near Camp Falluja, the main military base outside the flashpoint city of the same name, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters here.A Johannesburg report says, a South African was killed in Iraq yesterday, the second to die in as many days and taking to six the number of nationals killed in the conflict, the foreign ministry said. "We can only confirm at this stage that a South African was killed in Falluja today," foreign ministry spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa told AFP, adding: "It is a matter of great concern to us that more people are dying in Iraq everyday." On Thursday, a South African citizen was killed in Iraq.
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