Baghdad: A US officer said "some" US soldiers were killed in a suicide attack at a
military checkpoint in Baghdad on April 10.
Asked by reporters how many US servicemen died in the incident, Marine officer Matt
Baker said, "Some are dead in the attack but I don't know how many."
Baker said the attack occurred North of the Palestine Hotel in Central Baghdad,
where journalists covering the Iraq war are staying. But he could give no more
details about the attack.
Earlier, CNN television said a suicide bomber seriously wounded four US Marines at a
military checkpoint in Baghdad on April 10.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, US troops battled through heavy gunfire and loyalist ambushes,
as looting surged and buildings were set ablaze across the ancient city.
Massive explosions rocked the Old Palace Presidential compound on a bend in the
Tigris River at dusk, apparently Iraqi remnants firing on US positions within the
grounds. US Army troops occupying the palace compound appeared to return fire with
tank cannons.
With armed Iraqis in civilian clothes crouching behind bushes and some US positions
taking heavy fire, US units slogged through firefights with loyalists to President
Saddam Hussein in and around the city.
