Multi-National Corps – Iraq
Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory
APO AE 09342

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080510-06
May 10, 2008

Mortar attack kills 4 civilians, wounds 5 in New Baghdad

Multi-National Division – Baghdad PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE LOYALTY, Iraq – A mortar attack killed and wounded several Iraqi civilians in the New Baghdad district of Baghdad 3 p.m. May 9.

Initial reports indicate criminals fired 17 60 mm mortars that killed four civilians and wounded five, including a woman and a child.

Iraqi Police officers took the wounded civilians to a local hospital for treatment.

“Endangering the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians underscores the indiscriminate violence used by criminal elements, and this is what Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition forces are working to prevent,” said Maj. Alan Stout, spokesman for 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light).

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