'The Bradley, upside down, was on fire. Seven died'

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2085266,00.html

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As we came out, I saw the Bradley, which had been flipped upside down and was on fire. It's a heavy armoured and tracked vehicle, a cross between a tank and an armoured personnel carrier.

You can't patrol that area with Humvees - it's too dangerous. So the troops enter in heavy vehicles and then do foot patrols, visiting houses.

Those troops who could fetched fire extinguishers from their vehicles to try to put the fire out. There was ordnance - we didn't know how much - heating up and going off inside the vehicle.

Later helicopters hovered over the scene and more US vehicles arrived. But at that point, we were among the first people there - we must have arrived soon after the blast.

The Bradley was destroyed and seven were killed. What did the damage appears to have been an improvised explosive device under the road.