Five US service personnel were killed when a military transport helicopter crashed during a routine flight west of Baghdad yesterday, the US military said.

The CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed near the US military's al-Taqaddum air base close to Falluja, 50 km west of Baghdad.

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