25 die in Italian Iraq base attack

A 自殺 爆撃機 drove a タンカー packed with 爆発性のs into the Italian 軍の police 駅／配置する in southern Iraq 殺人，大当り at least 25 people, most of them Italian.

The 爆撃機 drove the タンカー into the 構内／化合物 in Nasiriyah, about 180 miles south-east of Baghdad, 爆発するing the 乗り物 in a ball of 炎上s.

The 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する hours later, destroying a 倉庫／問屋 in Baghdad and chasing 攻撃者s who were seen 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing 迫撃砲s.

It was the deadliest attack 苦しむd by 非，不，無-American 連合 軍隊s since the 占領／職業 began in April, and the first in the 比較して 静かな Shiite イスラム教徒 city.

証言，証人／目撃するs said the 攻撃者s used a おとり car to distract guards in 前線 of a roadblock 近づく the building.

An Italian 公式の／役人 said gunmen in a second 乗り物 解雇する／砲火／射撃d at the Italian guards while the 自殺 driver ploughed through the gate and 爆発させるd his 乗り物.

陸軍大佐 Gianfranco Scalas said 17 Italians were killed: 11 Carabinieri 議会の police, four army 兵士s, an Italian 非軍事の working at the base and an Italian 文書の filmmaker.

A 広報担当者 for the US-led 連合 said at least eight Iraqis were also killed.

Seventy-nine people were 負傷させるd, 含むing 20 Italians, hospital sources said.

It was Italy's 選び出す／独身 worst 軍の loss since the Second World War and its first in the Iraq （選挙などの）運動をする.

Italian 総理大臣 Silvio Berlusconi 誓約（する）d that the 荒廃 in Nasiriyah would not derail his country's かかわり合い to helping Iraq.

Jalal Talabani, the 長，率いる of the Iraqi 治める／統治するing 会議, said the Italian 犠牲者s were "殉教者s of the fight for the freedom of Iraq".

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