Aberdeen captain is killed in Iraq

July 13, 2007

A soldier assigned to the Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic at Aberdeen Proving Ground died in Baghdad on Tuesday from indirect enemy fire, the Department of Defense said yesterday.

Capt. Maria I. Ortiz, of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, was 40.

At least 3,610 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war began in March 2003, according to the Associated Press.

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