11 Iraqi soldiers killed in bomb disposal accident

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MOSUL, Sept 25 (Reuters): Eleven Iraqi soldiers were killed Friday in a roadside bomb disposal accident in northern Iraq, Iraqi security officials said.
The bomb disposal unit was trying to detonate a number of bombs in a vacant area in Bashika, east of the city of Mosul, 390 kms north of Baghdad, when the explosion took place, a senior police source said on condition of anonymity.
Ethnically and religiously mixed Mosul remains one of Iraq's most violent cities as the insurgent and sectarian violence unleashed by the US-led invasion in 2003 fades across most of the country and US forces prepare to withdraw by 2012.