Two American soldiers die in rocket attack

Two American soldiers were killed and 21 injured today when a rocket slammed into a logistics base near the Iraqi town of Balad.

Fourteen of the injured were taken to the US Army’s 31st Combat Support Hospital and seven were treated at a clinic on the base, known as Camp Anaconda, according to a military statement.

Balad is 50 miles north of Baghdad.

Air and ground units responded to the attack, the military said.

On June 6, a US soldier on the same base was killed and another wounded in a mortar attack.

Camp Anaconda was also the scene of a mortar attack last July that wounded 18 American soldiers.