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A US marine was shot dead by a gunman at a checkpoint outside a Baghdad hospital on Saturday, the US Central Command announced early Sunday.
"The marine was guarding a checkpoint at a medical facility when two men posing as landscape workers approached. One man shot and killed the marine," the US Central Command said in a statement.
The statement added that marines nearby shot and killed one of the attackers, who was found to be carrying a Syrian identification card, but the other one fled the scene.
The incident is under investigation, it said.
(Xinhua News Agency April 13, 2003)
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