/ 30 April 2004

Another South African killed in Iraq

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that another South African has been killed in Iraq.

Department spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said that the man was killed in Fallujah on Friday morning.

He said that the circumstances of the death were still being investigated.

Mamoepa said that government was repeating its call for South Africans not to visit Iraq because of the current state of conflict.

A South African was killed on Thursday in Basra in southern Iraq in a drive-by shooting.

Four other South Africans have been killed in Iraq since late January and another seriously injured. – Sapa