US soldier killed in drive-by shooting

A US soldier was killed yesterday in an apparent drive-by shooting at a gas station in Iraq, the US military said.

US soldier killed in drive-by shooting

The soldier was a member of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division which controls the city, 250 miles north of Baghdad.

The fatal attack was the second in two days in the northern city of Mosul where a 101st soldier was killed and two were injured in a roadside bombing Sunday. A total of 445 US soldiers have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion on March 20. Of those, 308 have died in enemy attacks.

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