
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Puerto Rican soldier was killed when a patrol came under rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire near Baghdad, a military official said Thursday.
Sgt. Jose Rivera, 34, of Puerto Rico, was killed and two others wounded Wednesday when they were attacked near Mahmudiyah, 15 miles south of Baghdad, Army spokesman Jose Pagan said.
Rivera became the fourth soldier of Puerto Rican descent to die in Iraq in four days and the 13th to be killed since the war began.
He was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg, N.C., and lived there with his wife and three children, Pagan said. He also has family in this U.S. Caribbean...