Showing posts with label U.S. convoy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. convoy. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Motorist recovering after crashing into military convoy

Motorist Crashes into Light Armored Vehicle in Military Convoy on SR 62
Banning-Beaumont Patch
Posted by Guy McCarthy (Editor)
December 17, 2013

A motorist was injured Friday when he reportedly "took his attention off the road" and struck a Light Armored Vehicle in a military convoy en route from USMC Camp Pendleton to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, a CHP officer said Tuesday.

The crash occurred just after 5 p.m. Dec. 13 on State Route 62 east of Bonair Road in Joshua Tree, Officer Joan Griffin of the Morongo Basin California Highway Patrol said in a statement.
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Roadside bomb targets U.S. convoy, sets market ablaze

Roadside bomb targets U.S. convoy, sets market ablaze

By Hamid Ahmed - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Apr 14, 2008 7:57:02 EDT

BAGHDAD — An attack on a U.S. convoy sparked a large fire in an eastern Baghdad market Monday.

Dozens of stalls were set ablaze at 2 a.m. local time when a bomb exploded next to a convoy of U.S. military vehicles driving down a commercial street in the capital’s eastern district.

A Humvee was damaged in the blast, said an Iraqi police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Residents said more than a dozen U.S. and Iraqi firefighting vehicles rushed to the scene to put out the blaze, which continued until morning. The U.S. military said none of the soldiers involved was seriously hurt.

The U.S. military said militants firing rocket-propelled grenades ambushed an American patrol in eastern Baghdad late Sunday night. Armed helicopters and an Abrams tank repelled the attack, killing six of the gunmen, the statement said.

Elsewhere in Iraq, U.S. soldiers discovered a mass grave near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, the military said Monday.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/04/ap_iraqattack_041408/