BAGHDAD, Iraq - Fighting between insurgents and American forces west of Baghdad has killed two U.S. Marines, the military said in a statement Thursday.
A Polish soldier was killed and three were wounded in a separate attack.
The two Marines died in clashes Wednesday in Anbar province, the statement said. The U.S. military had initially said two coalition troops were killed during heavy fighting Wednesday in the Anbar city of Ramadi, but it had declined to reveal their nationalities.
Multiple U.S. military camps in Ramadi came under mortar attack Wednesday and two U.S. helicopters made emergency landings after coming attack from small arms before returning their base, the military said.
The deaths of the two Marines takes the tally of U.S. personnel killed in Iraq to at least 908 since the war began, according to an Associated Press tally.
The Polish casualties came when the troops were hit by shrapnel from a boobytrap set off by remote control, the Polish Defense Ministry said Thursday, according to Polish Radio Zet.
Defense Ministry spokeswoman Agnieszka Kucharska confirmed the casualties but said she had no further details on the incident, including exactly when it happened.
"One is dead and three are wounded," Kucharska said.
The death raises the number of Polish troops killed in Iraq to seven.
Poland sent troops in support of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and now commands some 6,200 multinational troops in south-central Iraq from 16 countries, including 2,400 of its own.
Associated Press
A Polish soldier was killed and three were wounded in a separate attack.
The two Marines died in clashes Wednesday in Anbar province, the statement said. The U.S. military had initially said two coalition troops were killed during heavy fighting Wednesday in the Anbar city of Ramadi, but it had declined to reveal their nationalities.
Multiple U.S. military camps in Ramadi came under mortar attack Wednesday and two U.S. helicopters made emergency landings after coming attack from small arms before returning their base, the military said.
The deaths of the two Marines takes the tally of U.S. personnel killed in Iraq to at least 908 since the war began, according to an Associated Press tally.
The Polish casualties came when the troops were hit by shrapnel from a boobytrap set off by remote control, the Polish Defense Ministry said Thursday, according to Polish Radio Zet.
Defense Ministry spokeswoman Agnieszka Kucharska confirmed the casualties but said she had no further details on the incident, including exactly when it happened.
"One is dead and three are wounded," Kucharska said.
The death raises the number of Polish troops killed in Iraq to seven.
Poland sent troops in support of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and now commands some 6,200 multinational troops in south-central Iraq from 16 countries, including 2,400 of its own.
Associated Press
