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Seven US soldiers have been killed after their helicopter crashed as it was attempting to land in southern Iraq, the US military has said.
The CH-47 Chinook crashed just after midnight on Thursday, about 100km west of the city of Basra, the US statement said.
"A Quick Reaction Force was dispatched from Basra," the statement said, adding that a road convoy in the region was sent to the crash scene for support.
A spokesman for the Multi-National Force in Iraq told the Associated Press that hostile fire was not suspected as a cause of the crash.
The helicopter was among an aerial convoy flying from Kuwait to the US military base at Balad, which lies north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The US military statement said that an investigation has been opened into what caused the crash.
The Chinook model was introduced in 1962 and is primarily used to transport troops and supplies to combat and other regions.
The latest deaths bring the total of US soldiers killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to 4,166, according to a count by the AFP news agency.
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US Army file picture shows a CH-47 Chinook helicopter operating at night in Iraq.
Al-Jazeera
