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Roadside bomb attack on Iraq convoy

Updated on 05 October 2008

Source PA News

A roadside bomb attack on a British convoy in Basra has injured an Iraqi civilian, authorities said.

A spokesman for the British military in Iraq, Major Bill Young, said the attack occurred around 8.30am local time on Sunday on a convoy carrying Western contractors.

The contractors were going to a children's hospital to inspect work on the building.

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