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Soldiers injured in Iraq blast

13 April 2012

Several Britsh soldiers have been injured following an explosion outside a military base in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

The troops and a number of Iraqi civilians are being treated in hospital following this afternoon's blast at an entrance to a compound in Shaibah, 20 miles south west of Basra.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman could not confirm the number of injured, or if the explosion was the result of a suicide bombing.

"Several Iraqi civilians and UK military personnel have been injured and are being treated at a military hospital inside the base," she sai

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