4 U.S. troops killed, 5 injured in Baghdad

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MSNBC News Services
Updated: 10:14 a.m. ET June 04, 2004BAGHDAD, Iraq - Four U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded on Friday when an explosion hit their vehicle in eastern Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said.

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Earlier on Friday, Shiite insurgents fired mortar rounds and rocket-propelled grenades at a police station housing U.S. troops, touching off firefights a Baghdad neighborhood that is a stronghold of al-Sadr.

The fighting came after U.S. troops tried to raid homes and arrest militiamen, said Adnan al-Safi, an official in Shiite rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s office. A bakery in front of the police station was set on fire, but no other damage was reported.

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