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Iraqi soldier killed in bomb blast north of Baghdad

Baghdad, Mar 1 (UNI) An Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were wounded on Friday in a bomb explosion north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
The incident took place in the morning when a bomb detonated inside a house under construction within an orchard in the Tarmiyah area, some 40 km north of Baghdad, the Baghdad Operation Command said in a statement, adding the soldiers were conducting a search operation to hunt down Islamic State (IS) militants at the time.
An army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity to Xinhua, said that the search operation targeted a terrorist group that had launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on the house of a tribal leader in the Tarmiyah area late Thursday.
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