WASHINGTON, Nov 22 (AFP) - The US Defence Department on Monday announced the recent deaths of a soldier and five marines from its forces in Iraq, including three who died after being transferred out of the country for treatment.
All had been on duty in Al-Anbar province which includes the city of Fallujah, where US forces say they are completing a major operation to eject insurgents, said a Pentagon statement.
Two marines, identified as Corporal Bradley Arms, 20, and Lance Corporal Demarkus Brown, 22, died Friday in Al-Anbar.
The others died in US military hospitals in Germany and Washington.
Corporal Joseph Heredia, 22, and Lance Corporal Joseph Welke, 20, died Saturday in a military hospital in Germany. Both had been wounded since the Fallujah operation was launched two weeks ago.
Lance Corporal Michael Downey, 21, died Friday at a military hospital in Washington, eight days after being critically wounded.
The Pentagon announced separately that army sergeant, Jack Bryant, 23, was killed on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Muqdadiyah when a bomb detonated near his convoy which then came under rocket-propelled grenade attack.
More than 1,215 US troops have been killed in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion by a US-led force.
11/22/2004 19:29 GMT - AFP