17 Iraqis Killed, in an early report, on June 16, 2007

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on June , 2007.

- A British soldier was killed and two others were injured when their armored vehicles overturned and fell from a Bridge in Basra.

- Three Australian soldiers were injured when their vehicle overturned in southern Iraq.

- Four Iraqis were killed and 18 were injured when US helicopters bombed three houses in Al-Hussainiyah neighborhood, northeast of Baghdad.

- Five Iraqi civilians were injured by cluster bombs dropped on Al-Jihad neighborhood, in the city of Al-Kut.

The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on June , 2007. The AP reported the following different news.

The identification cards of two American soldiers missing since an attack on their unit in May were found in an al-Qaida safe house north of Baghdad, along with video production equipment, computers and weapons, the U.S. military said Saturday.

The house, discovered June 9 near Samarra - about 60 miles outside the Iraqi capital - was otherwise empty, the statement said. American soldiers approaching the building came under fire from a nearby stand of trees, and two were wounded before air support could arrive.

Spc. Alex R. Jimenez and Pvt. Byron Fouty were snatched in a raid on their 10th Mountain Division unit on May 12 near Youssifiyah, a town about 70 miles south of the house where their identification cards were found. The body of a third soldier taken in the raid, Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., was found floating in the Euphrates River. Four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed in the May 12 ambush.

In Iraq's western Al-Anbar province, the remains of 13 members of an Iraqi taekwondo team kidnapped last year were found near the main highway leading to Jordan, police and hospital officials said. The team had been driving to a training camp there in May 2006 when their convoy was interrupted.

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