Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers came to the aid of an Iraqi citizen after an improvised explosive device detonated in the driveway of a house near Al Sumalat, Iraq June 17. After hearing an explosion, Soldiers from Company B, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment saw a damaged vehicle with three passengers pull up to their patrol base. The occupants explained that they had just struck an IED at a nearby house and that one of the passengers had been wounded.
The Soldiers immediately offered medical assistance to the man. He was treated on-site for a head wound, observed and later released. Upon investigation of the house, Soldiers from Co. B confirmed that the house was one which insurgents had previously attempted to destroy several weeks earlier. Iraqi Security Forces are currently investigating to find those responsible for the IED attack. |