MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier from a non-hostile, unspecified cause in a southern neighborhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, October 10th.
MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Center soldier from a non-hostile, unspecified cause, likely in Baghdad (although this is not spelled out in the release), on Wednesday, October 10th.
On October 1st and October 2nd, MNF-Iraq issued two news releases for supposedly separate deaths that occurred on September 30th, here and here. Eleven days have elapsed since and the DoD has only identified one death for that day: Sergeant Randell Olguin, 24, of Ralls, Texas. Hence, we can only assume that MNF-Iraq doubled up on itself ... and Olguin was the only death on September 30th. One of the two deaths we had listed that day has been deleted and the death count reduced by one.
The Associated Press is reporting the deaths of two members of the U.S.-led coalition when either rockets or mortars hit the main U.S. base in Baghdad, Camp Victory. 40 other persons were wounded on the sprawling base which serves as headquarters for U.S. forces in Iraq.
Security incidents:
Baghdad:
#1: Two multi-national soldiers were killed in an 'indirect fire' attack on a US base in Baghdad. Iraqi Sharqiya independent TV cited a witness as saying he heard nine mortar shells falling on the Camp Victory military base vernight Wednesday, killing two multi-national soldiers and injuring 38 others. No further details were immediately available.
#2: A mortar round killed a father and son and wounded three others on Wednesday in eastern Baghdad's Mashtal district, police said.
#3: Seven bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.
#4: Iraqi soldiers killed one gunman and arrested 30 others in different parts of Iraq during the last 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said.
#5: A Roadside bomb went off near a U.S. patrol in the Iskan neighborhood in western Baghdad in the afternoon, wounding five civilians," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. It was unclear whether the U.S. patrol sustain any casualty as the troops immediately cordoned off the area, preventing the Iraqi police from approaching the scene, he said.
#6: another roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in Baghdad's northwestern neighborhood of Shulla, damaging a police vehicle and wounding two policemen, the source added.
#7: Around 7 a.m., a roadside bomb exploded at Uqba Bin Nafia intersection at Karrada neighborhood (downtown Baghdad). No casualties recorded.
#8: Around 10 a.m., a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol when it passed the Shoala bridge towards Hurriyah neighborhood (north Baghdad) injuring two policemen.
#9: Around 11 a.m., a roadside bomb exploded at the entrance of Kifah street that leads to the Shorja market (downtown Baghdad) injuring two people.
#10: Police found ( 5 ) unidentified dead bodies in the following neighborhoods in Baghdad : ( 4 ) were found in west Baghdad ( Karkh bank) ; 1 in Doura , 1 in Amil , 1 in Saidiyah and 1 in Bayaa. While ( 1 ) was found in east Baghdad ( Risafa bank) in Qahira neighborhood.
#11: One MNC-I Soldier died of wounds suffered during combat operations in eastern Baghdad Oct. 10
Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: In Thursday violence, clashes between suspected al-Qaida gunmen and police at checkpoints near Baqouba left at least one officer dead and two others wounded, according to a police official who asked for anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The pre-dawn attacks lasted about three hours and occurred at two checkpoints in Abbara, north of Baqouba, which is about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, according to police. One gunman was killed and several others fled, police said.
Khalis:
#1: Gunmen also killed five Iraqi civilians and wounded four others in a morning attack on a minibus making its way from Khalis to Kirkuk, police said. Khalis is about 50 miles north of Baghdad.
Diwaniya:
#1: Separately, 11 civilians, including seven school children, were wounded when extremists carried out a mortar attack on a temporary base of US-led coalition forces near a school in Diwaniyah city's Iskan district, the US military in Iraq reported Thursday. Diwaniyah is 200 kilometres south of Baghdad.
Mahaweel:
#1: Gunmen killed a woman in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Zubaidiya:
#1: Police said they found the bodies of two men and a woman near the town of Zubaidiya, 90 km (55 miles) south of Baghdad, on Wednesday. They had been tortured and shot.
Basra:
#1: The forensic medicine department in Basra received on Thursday morning two unidentified bodies from two separate places in the city, a medical source said.
Kirkuk:
#1: Police said they killed two members of a suspected roadside bomb cell southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk and arrested a third.
#2: A car bomb targeting the traffic police chief in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least seven people and wounded 50 others on Thursday, police said. Brigadier-General Salar Ahmed Amin was wounded in the attack on his convoy. Some of the victims were motorists who had been queueing at a fuel station in the Shorja area of Kirkuk, a volatile multi-ethnic city.
#3: Around Wednesday night, gunmen driving a sedan car (BMW model) kidnapped a man from Al-Khzeif village of Hawija (west Kirkuk).
#4: Around Wednesday night, a truck bomb targeted a headquarter of the Iraqi army at Zab district ( west Kirkuk) killing one officer and injuring three other soldiers with some damages to the headquarter and the neighboring houses.
#5: Around 1 p.m., a suicide truck bomber targeted a headquarter of the Iraqi army at Abasi district (west Kirkuk) accompanied by an attack using the machine guns. No casualties recorded, police said.
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed the son of an Islamic Party official in northeastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. He was shot dead in his car.
#2: Around 3 p.m., a suicide truck bomber targeted the headquarter of PUK at the industrial district at Mosul city injuring 8 people (four of them are guards). The suicider tried to be closer but the guards shot him from a distance that made him explode the truck outside the headquarter.
Casualty Reports:
The DoD has identified the Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier who died in an improvised explosive device attack in a southern part of Baghdad on Saturday, October 6th: Corporal Gilberto A. Meza, 21, of Oxnard, California. The Ventura County (California) Star is running a very brief article stating that efforts to contact the family had been unsuccessful. He reportedly entered a regular high school in 2000, but eventually wound up in the school district's GED program by 2004. His current army assignment was with the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment out of Vilseck, Germany.
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