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[Rick Faurot]

Suicide bomb blamed in Marine deaths
Eight Marines killed in fighting west of Baghdad
Sunday, October 31, 2004 Posted: 12:18 PM EST (1718 GMT)


FALLUJA, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber was responsible for an attack on Saturday that killed eight U.S. Marines and wounded 10 others in the deadliest single attack on U.S. forces in six months, Marine Lt. Col. Michael Ramos said Sunday.

The attack on the Marine convoy happened in the rural area of Zaydan, near Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Ramos said. The car used in the attack was a sport-utility vehicle.

It was the highest single-day death toll for U.S. forces since a car bomb killed eight soldiers on April 29 in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad.