Al-Suwaira fuel dump explosion

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Al-Suwaira attack
Part of the Iraq War
Date January 9, 2005 Location Al-Suwaira, Wasit Governorate, Iraq Result Attack successful
Belligerents
Multinational Division Central-South  Poland  Ukraine  Kazakhstan	Islamic Army of Iraq[1][2]
Units involved
72nd Mechanized Brigade KAZBAT Battalion	?
Casualties and losses
8 killed, 6 wounded[1] 1 killed, 4 wounded[1]	?

On January 9, 2005, a 27-man team of Kazakh sappers from the Kazbat engineer battalion collected 35 aerial bombs that Iraqi police had found stashed near the central military base of Al-Suwaira, located 6 miles south of Baghdad. The bombs were loaded onto transport trucks from where they would be defused at the Al-Suwaira Multinational Division Central-South army base.^[3]