Post by Moses on Aug 2, 2005 8:53:56 GMT -5
Italian soldier dies in Iraq crash
Sergeant Davide Casagrande 26th military casualty in Iraq
(ANSA) - Rome, July 14 - An Italian soldier was killed and two others were injured in an auto accident in Iraq on Thursday .
Sergeant Davide Casagrande died when his patrol vehicle veered off a desert road and overturned .
He was the 26th Italian military casualty in Iraq. Military sources ruled out an attack by insurgents .
They said the crash took place near the southern city of Nassiriya where the Italians are stationed .
Casagrande's injured companions will shortly be flown back to Italy. One has a broken arm. The other broke a leg .
As well as the 26 military fatalities, a secret service agent and six civilians have been killed in the last two years in Iraq. Seventeen military and paramilitary men lost their lives in a 12 November 2003 suicide truck bomb attack on an Italian base in Nassiriya .
Twelve members of the paramilitary Carabinieri police were killed: Domenico Intravaia, Orazio Majorana, Giuseppe Coletta, Giovanni Cavallaro, Alfio Ragazzi, Ivan Ghitti, Daniele Ghione, Enzo Fregosi, Alfonso Trincone, Massimiliano Bruno, Andrea Filippa, Filippo Merlino .
Five army men died: Massimo Ficuciello, Silvio Olla, Emanuele Ferraro, Alessandro Carrisi, Pietro Petrucci. The next death was corporal Matteo Vanzan, killed during violent clashes in Nassiriya in May 2004 .
He was followed by NCO Antonio Tarantino, who died in a truck crash in July last year. Warrant officer Simone Cola was killed in January 2005 by a kalashnikov bullet as he manned his helicopter machine-gun. The last four army deaths were the occupants of a helicopter that crashed on the night of May 30-31 thirteen miles outside Nassiriya: Lt Cln Giuseppe Lima, Captain Marco Briganti and NCOs Massimiliano Biondini and Marco Cirillo Six Italian civilians have also been slain in Iraq. The first were documentary director Stefano Rolla and aid worker Marco Beci, killed in the November 2003 attack .
Then came four hostages: bodyguard Fabrizio Quattrocchi, journalist Enzo Baldoni, Italo-Iraqi businessman Ayad Anwar Wali and would-be aid worker and long-time British resident Salvatore Santoro .
The last non-military death was that of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari, shot by US troops at a checkpoint mix-up on March 4, minutes after he freed kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena .
Sergeant Davide Casagrande 26th military casualty in Iraq
(ANSA) - Rome, July 14 - An Italian soldier was killed and two others were injured in an auto accident in Iraq on Thursday .
Sergeant Davide Casagrande died when his patrol vehicle veered off a desert road and overturned .
He was the 26th Italian military casualty in Iraq. Military sources ruled out an attack by insurgents .
They said the crash took place near the southern city of Nassiriya where the Italians are stationed .
Casagrande's injured companions will shortly be flown back to Italy. One has a broken arm. The other broke a leg .
As well as the 26 military fatalities, a secret service agent and six civilians have been killed in the last two years in Iraq. Seventeen military and paramilitary men lost their lives in a 12 November 2003 suicide truck bomb attack on an Italian base in Nassiriya .
Twelve members of the paramilitary Carabinieri police were killed: Domenico Intravaia, Orazio Majorana, Giuseppe Coletta, Giovanni Cavallaro, Alfio Ragazzi, Ivan Ghitti, Daniele Ghione, Enzo Fregosi, Alfonso Trincone, Massimiliano Bruno, Andrea Filippa, Filippo Merlino .
Five army men died: Massimo Ficuciello, Silvio Olla, Emanuele Ferraro, Alessandro Carrisi, Pietro Petrucci. The next death was corporal Matteo Vanzan, killed during violent clashes in Nassiriya in May 2004 .
He was followed by NCO Antonio Tarantino, who died in a truck crash in July last year. Warrant officer Simone Cola was killed in January 2005 by a kalashnikov bullet as he manned his helicopter machine-gun. The last four army deaths were the occupants of a helicopter that crashed on the night of May 30-31 thirteen miles outside Nassiriya: Lt Cln Giuseppe Lima, Captain Marco Briganti and NCOs Massimiliano Biondini and Marco Cirillo Six Italian civilians have also been slain in Iraq. The first were documentary director Stefano Rolla and aid worker Marco Beci, killed in the November 2003 attack .
Then came four hostages: bodyguard Fabrizio Quattrocchi, journalist Enzo Baldoni, Italo-Iraqi businessman Ayad Anwar Wali and would-be aid worker and long-time British resident Salvatore Santoro .
The last non-military death was that of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari, shot by US troops at a checkpoint mix-up on March 4, minutes after he freed kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena .