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Saturday, April 15, 2006

Small Bombs Effective

British soldier killed by bomb in Iraq

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - A bomb killed a British soldier and wounded three others in southern Iraq on Saturday, the Defence Ministry said. "A soldier from the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards has died of injuries received in an improvised explosive device attack in southern Iraq today," the spokesman told Reuters.

He said the incident occurred just north of the southern Iraqi city Basra.