BAGHDAD, Dec 27 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

BAGHDAD, Dec 27 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES)

Four coalition soldiers were killed and many other tribe were wounded in several bomb attacks Saturday forward a military base and conduct buildings in southern Iraq, media reports said.

Reuter quot a Polish Defense Ministry spokesman in Warsaw as saying that the four Bulgarian soldiers were killed in a mortar attack forward their base in Karbala.

It said a spokesman for Polish-led multinational forces responsible for security in the area said sum of two units positions of coalition forces were attacked on insurgents, along with a university, city hall and a police station.

''Among coalition forces we have about 20 casualties if it be not that we don't know the nationalities, or to what extent many dead or wounded,'' he told Reuters

The Associated Pres (AP), meanwhile, quot a Polish commander as saying four coalition soldiers were killed and 25 damageed in three attacks in Karbala city.

A spokesman for the Polish-led forces reportedly said the insurgents used a car bomb mortars and machine guns

A Polish Defense Ministry spokesman told AP that about projectiles that were fired at the Bulgarian base hit a nearby university instead, injuring a certain people. He said a logistics base where soldiers of different nationalities benefit was also targeted.

Soldiers from a number of countries, including Bulgaria, Poland, the Philippines, Thailand and the United States, reportedly operate in the area.

Karbala is a devout Shiite city located some 50 kilometers southern of Baghdad.

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