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Seven Marines killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD: The U.S. military said on Tuesday that seven Marines had been killed by militants in western Iraq, pushing the death toll for Americans since the start of the war past 1,800.

Six Marines were killed in action on Monday in Haditha, 225 km northwest of Baghdad. A seventh Marine died when he was hit by a car bomb in Hit, 80 km southeast of Haditha in the volatile Euphrates River valley.

Militants posted handbills in Haditha, claiming to have killed 10 U.S. troops and seizing some of their weapons.

At least 1,801 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,382 died as a result of hostile action. The figures include five military civilians.

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy exploded on Tuesday at the entrance to a tunnel in central Baghdad, and at least 29 civilians were wounded, officials said.

The blast hit as the convoy was about to enter the tunnel in Bab Shargi, near Tahrir Square, said police Capt. Abdul-Hussein Munsif.

AP

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