Al-Suwaira fuel dump explosion
On January 9, 2005, a 27-man team of Kazakh sappers from the Kazbat engineer battalion collected 35 aerial bombs that Iraqi police had found stashed near the central military base of Al-Suwaira, located 6 miles south of Baghdad. The bombs were loaded onto transport trucks from where they would be defused at the Al-Suwaira Multinational Division Central-South army base.
| Al-Suwaira attack | |||||||
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| Part of the Iraq War | |||||||
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Multinational Division Central-South
| Islamic Army of Iraq | ||||||
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72nd Mechanized Brigade KAZBAT Battalion | ? | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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8 killed, 6 wounded 1 killed, 4 wounded | ? | ||||||
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