A Black Hawk helicopter crashed into the Tigris river in northern Iraq yesterday, killing three US soldiers on board, the Pentagon confirmed. A fourth was injured. The helicopter, from the army's 4th Infantry Division, apparently crashed after hitting a power line near Samarra, a town between Baghdad and Tikrit. It was one of two sent to rescue an Iraqi child wounded in an explosion after ordnance went off outside Samarra. The helicopter carrying the child took off safely, but the other apparently snagged a wire. The three deaths bring the number of US troops killed in the Iraq war to 145.
I can't think of anything more heroic than trying to save the life of a child. God bless these three men. |