115 US Soldiers Dead in April
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A U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday by insurgents in Baghdad, bringing the American combat death toll for April to 115 - the same number of U.S. combatants killed in the two-month invasion of Iraq a year ago.
Tuesday's death occurred when Shiite gunmen attacked a patrol near the Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said. A U.S. soldier also was wounded, he said.
The district is a stronghold of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Al-Mahdi Army militia.
So far, 714 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq last year. Of those, 513 died as a result of hostile action and 200 died of non-hostile causes.
Since May 1, when President Bush declared that major combat operations in Iraq had ended, 574 U.S. soldiers have died - 403 as a result of hostile action and 171 of non-hostile causes.