Four British soldiers and a Kuwaiti interpreter were killed Thursday in an ambush in southern Iraq, the British military said. The patrol struck a roadside bomb and was hit by small-arms fire about 2 a.m. in the Hayaniyah district west of Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, British military spokeswoman Capt. Katie Brown said. Four British soldiers and a Kuwaiti civilian interpreter were killed and another British soldier was seriously wounded, Brown was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
